Palhinhaea lehmannii (Hieron.) Holub (1991: 93)

Øllgaard, Benjamin & Testo, Weston, 2021, The Lycopodiaceae of Panamá, Phytotaxa 526 (1), pp. 1-66 : 58

. ­­­ Palhinhaea lehmannii (Hieron.) Holub (1991: 93) .—Fig. 25

Lycopodium lehmannii Hieronymus (1905: 574) .— Lycopodiella lehmannii (Hieron.) B. Øllgaard (1987: 176) .

Syntypes:— COLOMBIA: Andes of Popayán , Lehmann 6972, (B, BONN-Nessel 390 p. p., G, K);, Munchique, Lehmann 3662 (B, BM, K).

Plants with long, usually slender 2–3 mm thick, arching-looping to scandent runner shoots, rooting at long intervals. These bearing dorsally arising, initially erect, amply branched, or to several m long, bending to long scandent shoots. Dorsally arising shoots with several spreading or nodding to long pendulous, usually alternate, to at least 40 cm long lateral branchlet systems, sparsely to densely short-hairy. Leaves of main axes usually distant, patent to reflexed or often upward curved, 3–4 mm long, to 0.7 mm wide, with terete to quadrangular, hairy leaf bases, upward sometimes flattened, herbaceous to subcoriaceous. Ultimate branchlets 3–5 mm in diam. incl. leaves, often tapering to less than 2 mm in diam. Leaves of ultimate branchlets borne in densely crowded, alternating whorls or low spirals of 4–5, forming 8–10 indistinct longitudinal ranks, acicular, often with slightly flattened apex, 2–4 × 0.3–0.7 mm, usually upward curved from a spreading or perpendicular base, soft herbaceous to subcoriaceous, with hairy leaf base. Strobili variable, 7–20 mm long, 2–3 mm in diam. Sporophylls 8–10-seriate with coalescent bases partly enclosing the sporangia, with 1.5–2 × ca. 1 mm exterior face, lanceolate-ovate, apically acute-acuminate exterior face, with irregularly erose-fimbriate to denticulate margins, of herbaceous texture throughout. Sporangia ca. 0.5–0.7 mm wide.

­­­ Distribution: Panamá, Colombia and Ecuador.

­­­ Habitats: Usually a pioneer in disturbed montane forest, 2000–2200 m elev.

Specimen­­­studied: Chiriquí / Bocas ­­­del­­­ Toro: Trail along continental divide to ca. 3 km E of Cerro Pate Macho, 2000–2200 m, along trail in cloud forest, Smith et al. 2447 ( MO, NY, photo UC) .