Polystichum orbiculatum (Desv.) J.Rémy & Fée, Fl. Chil.

Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, Phytotaxa 353 (1), pp. 448-450 : 448-450

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1

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scientific name

Polystichum orbiculatum (Desv.) J.Rémy & Fée, Fl. Chil.
status

 

Polystichum orbiculatum (Desv.) J.Rémy & Fée, Fl. Chil. View in CoL 6: 515. 1853.

= Polystichum pygmaeum Copel., Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 19: 300, pl. 56. 1941.

Range: —High mountains from Costa Rica ( McHenry & Barrington, 2014), Colombia to Bolivia (CO, LP).

Ecology: —Common; terrestrial and saxicolous, mostly growing in sheltered places among rocks and in rock crevices, near and above treeline; (3000–) 3700–4900 m.

Notes: —This species was treated as conspecific with P. polyphyllum by Kessler et al. (2005); however, based on recent studies ( McHenry & Barrington 2014; M. McHenry pers. comm.), we now treat the two as different taxa. There are a number of intermediates between this species and P. cochleatum , and they may represent hybrids. It seems likely that specimens called this from southern Mexico and Mesoamerica, as well as from Venezuela, are referrable to P. polyphyllum , but the exact range is uncertain to us. McHenry & Barrington (2014) included specimens from Costa Rica, Colombia, Bolivia, and Ecuador in their analysis.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Polypodiales

Family

Dryopteridaceae

Genus

Polystichum

Loc

Polystichum orbiculatum (Desv.) J.Rémy & Fée, Fl. Chil.

Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R. 2018
2018
Loc

Polystichum orbiculatum (Desv.) J.Rémy & Fée, Fl. Chil.

Desv. 1853: 515
1853
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