Lindsaea falcata Dryand., Trans. Linn. Soc. London

Smith, Alan R. & Kessler, Michael, 2017, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXV. Lindsaeaceae, Phytotaxa 332 (3), pp. 290-294 : 292

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.332.3.6

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scientific name

Lindsaea falcata Dryand., Trans. Linn. Soc. London
status

 

Lindsaea falcata Dryand., Trans. Linn. Soc. London View in CoL 3: 41, t. 7, f. 2. 1797.

= Lindsaea lancea (L.) Bedd. var. falcata (Dryand.) Rosenst., Hedwigia 46: 79. 1906.

Range:— Panama to the Guianas, northern Brazil, and Bolivia (CO, LP). Rojas-Alvarado & Tejero-Díez (2017) questioned the occurrence of this species in Panama.

Ecology:— Rare; terrestrial, sometimes on rotting logs, in humid forests; to 850 m, to 1500 m elsewhere.

Notes:— Often treated as a variety of Lindsaea lancea (e.g., by Kramer 1957), but more recent studies ( Tuomisto 1998, Lehtonen et al. 2010) suggest this entity warrants species status. Lindsaea falcata differs from L. lancea var. lancea by having 1-pinnate blades with pinnae to 45 × 20 mm (vs. to 37 × 14 mm), to 3 times as long as wide, and distal segments little or not reduced, strongly asymmetric (vs. roughly symmetric).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Polypodiales

Family

Lindsaeaceae

Genus

Lindsaea

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Polypodiales

Family

Lindsaeaceae

Genus

Lindsaea

Loc

Lindsaea falcata Dryand., Trans. Linn. Soc. London

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

var. falcata (Dryand.)

Rosenst. 1906: 79
1906
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