Meniscium serratum Cav., Descr. Pl. (Cavanilles)

Smith, Alan R. & Kessler, Michael, 2017, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXX. Thelypteridaceae, Phytotaxa 331 (1), pp. 1-34 : 29

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scientific name

Meniscium serratum Cav., Descr. Pl. (Cavanilles)
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Meniscium serratum Cav., Descr. Pl. (Cavanilles) View in CoL 548. 1803.

= Thelypteris serrata (Cav.) Alston, Kew Bull. 1932: 309 View in CoL . 1932.

Range: —Florida; Antilles; Mexico to Bolivia (BE, CO, LP, PA, SC), eastern Brazil, Paraguay, and northern Argentina.

Ecology: —Common; terrestrial and aquatic in marshes, swamps, roadside ditches, and along streams, sometimes in full sun; 200–900(1300) m.

Notes: —Readily recognized by the serrate pinnae; most other Bolivian species of the genus have entire to crenulate or undulate pinna margins. Meniscium consobrinum , which see, also has serrate pinnae, but differs by distal pinnae not or only slightly reduced (vs. greatly reduced) and generally broader and fewer pinnae.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Polypodiales

Family

Thelypteridaceae

Genus

Meniscium

Loc

Meniscium serratum Cav., Descr. Pl. (Cavanilles)

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

Thelypteris serrata (Cav.)

Alston 1932: 309
1932
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