Adiantum latifolium Lam., Encycl.

Kessler, Michael, Smith, Alan R. & Prado, Jefferson, 2017, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXVII. Pteridaceae, Phytotaxa 332 (3), pp. 201-250 : 234

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.332.3.1

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Adiantum latifolium Lam., Encycl.
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Adiantum latifolium Lam., Encycl. View in CoL 1: 43. 1783.

Range: — Mexico to Panama; Antilles, Colombia to Trinidad, Guianas, and Bolivia (BE, CO, LP, PA, SC); Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil.

Ecology: —Common, terrestrial in wet and semideciduous lowland forests; 150–650(–1000) m.

Notes: —A widespread, variable species, together with Adiantum petiolatum (1-pinnate), A. terminatum , A. humile , and probably A. incertum all closely related. Rhizomes long-creeping (cord-like); blades with 1–4 pairs of lateral pinnae; pinnules 10–16 pairs per pinna, apices rounded to acute; pinnules glabrous on both surfaces, abaxially glaucous, margins of sterile pinnules finely serrate.

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