Thelypteris (Steiropteris) valdepilosa (Baker) C.F.Reed 1968

Almeida, Thais Elias & Salino, Alexandre, 2015, Thirteen new records of ferns from Brazil, Biodiversity Data Journal 3, pp. 4421-4421 : 4421

Thelypteris (Steiropteris) valdepilosa (Baker) C.F.Reed 1968

Thelypteris (Steiropteris) valdepilosa (Baker) C.F.Reed, Phytologia 17: 323. 1968. Nephrodium valdepilosum Baker, J. Bot. 19: 204. 1881. Type: Colombia, Kalbreyer 1871 (K). Fig. 26.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BHCB 150014 ; recordNumber: A. Salino 15014; recordedBy: A. Salino & T.E. Almeida; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:252388-2; scientificName: Thelypteris (Steiropteris) valdepilosa (Baker) C.F.Reed; kingdom: Plantae; class: Polypodiopsida; order: Polypodiales; family: Thelypteridaceae; genus: Thelypteris; subgenus: Steiropteris; specificEpithet: valdepilosa; scientificNameAuthorship: (Baker) C.F.Reed; Location: continent: South America; country: Brazil; countryCode: BR; stateProvince: Acre; municipality: Mâncio Lima; locality: Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor, Rio Moa , trail to Igarape do Amor ; verbatimElevation: 220 m; minimumElevationInMeters: 220; verbatimCoordinates: 7°26'51"S, 73°40'01"W; verbatimLatitude: 7°26'51"S; verbatimLongitude: 73°40'01"W; decimalLatitude: -7.4475; decimalLongitude: -73.666944; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Salino; dateIdentified: 2011-01-10; Event: eventDate: 2010-12-13; year: 2010; month: 12; day: 13; Record Level: type: specimen; language: Portuguese; collectionCode: BHCB

Distribution

Previously known distribution: Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama and Peru ( Tryon et al. 1992). Fig. 27.

Ecology

Occurs as terrestrial in lowland and montane rainforests.

Taxon discussion

This species is easily recognizable by the subdimorphic leaves and orangish glands present on receptacle ( Smith 1980). The closest species appears to be T. (Steiropteris) leprieurii (Hook.) R.M.Tryon, which can also present dimorphic fronds ( Smith 1980).