Adiantum platyphyllum Sw., Kongl. Vetensk. Akad. Handl.

Kessler, Michael, Smith, Alan R. & Prado, Jefferson, 2017, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXVII. Pteridaceae, Phytotaxa 332 (3), pp. 201-250 : 237

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Adiantum platyphyllum Sw., Kongl. Vetensk. Akad. Handl.
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Adiantum platyphyllum Sw., Kongl. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. View in CoL , n.s., 1817(1): 74, t. 3, fig. 6. 1817.

Range: — Ecuador to Bolivia (BE, CO, LP, SC); Paraguay and Brazil.

Ecology: —Common, terrestrial in lowland evergreen forests; 150–1200 m.

Notes: —A distinctive species, possibly allied to other 1-pinnate species like A. poeppigianum , as well as other less divided extraterritorial species. Rhizomes short-creeping, nodose; rachises glabrous; blades pinnate (rarely 2- pinnate at bases); pinnae not dimidiate, ovate-lanceolate, apices long-acute to long-acuminate, not reduced toward blade or pinna bases, with stalks 0.5–2.5 cm, color of stalks passing into pinna bases, abaxially decidedly glaucous and glabrous, sterile margins serrulate; veins ending in teeth at pinna margins; sori borne on acroscopic and basiscopic margins, sometimes at proximal margins; indusia oblong, short, linear-arcuate, glabrous.

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