Christella patens (Sw.) Holttum, Webbia

Smith, Alan R. & Kessler, Michael, 2017, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXX. Thelypteridaceae, Phytotaxa 331 (1), pp. 1-34 : 21

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.331.1.1

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scientific name

Christella patens (Sw.) Holttum, Webbia
status

 

Christella patens (Sw.) Holttum, Webbia View in CoL 30: 193. 1976.

= Thelypteris patens (Sw.) Small, Ferns S. E. States 243–245, 475. 1938.

Range:— Florida; Antilles; Mexico to Bolivia and southern Brazil.

Ecology:— Fairly common; terrestrial in humid forests, on roadsides and ditches; to 1900 m.

Notes:— Distinguished from related species by the petiole base scales tan, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, glabrous or nearly so, dull; blades adaxially glabrous on costules and veins. The Bolivian specimens are assigned to var. patens ; var. dissimilis (Schrad.) A.R.Sm. occurs in southeastern Brazil and adjacent countries.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Polypodiales

Family

Thelypteridaceae

Genus

Christella

Loc

Christella patens (Sw.) Holttum, Webbia

Smith, Alan R. & Kessler, Michael 2017
2017
Loc

Christella patens (Sw.) Holttum, Webbia

Holttum 1976: 193
1976
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