Nephrolepis pectinata (Willd.) Schott, Gen. Fil.

Smith, Alan R. & Kessler, Michael, 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXVII. Nephrolepidaceae, Phytotaxa 334 (2), pp. 135-140 : 138

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.334.2.3

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13721556

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Nephrolepis pectinata (Willd.) Schott, Gen. Fil.
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Nephrolepis pectinata (Willd.) Schott, Gen. Fil. View in CoL , t. 3. 1834.

Range: Greater Antilles ( Jamaica, Cuba); southern Mexico to Panama; Colombia to Bolivia, southern Brazil.

Ecology: —Rare, known from a single Bolivian collection: Williams 1107 (NY); epiphytic, less commonly on rocks or terrestrial, in humid forests and disturbed habitats; 1200 m.

Notes: —Rhizomes erect, stolons lacking tubers; rhizome scales weakly bicolorous; pinnae parallel-sided, the bases basiscopically cuneate, ± perpendicular to rachises; indusia at pinna apices lunate or reniform (semicircular), with broad, open sinuses, or the sinuses lacking. This species is much more common in Peru and northward in the Andes and Mesoamerica. It shows a sister relationship with N. rivularis in the analysis by Yahaya et al. (2016).

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