Elaphoglossum stenophyllum (Sodiro) Diels 1899

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

Elaphoglossum stenophyllum (Sodiro) Diels 1899

Dryopteridaceae

Elaphoglossum stenophyllum (Sodiro) Diels, Nat. Pfanzenfam. 1(4): 333. 1899. Acrostichum stenophyllum Sodiro, Crypt. Vasc. Quit. 468. 1893. Type: Ecuador, Sodiros.n. (US). Fig. 10.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BHCB 144743 ; recordNumber: T.E. Almeida 2620; recordedBy: T.E. Almeida & A. Salino; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17105590-1; scientificName: Elaphoglossumstenophyllum (Sodiro) Diels; kingdom: Plantae; class: Polypodiopsida; order: Polypodiales; family: Dryopteridaceae; genus: Elaphoglossum; specificEpithet: stenophyllum; scientificNameAuthorship: (Sodiro) Diels; Location: continent: South America; country: Brazil; countryCode: BR; stateProvince: Acre; municipality: Mâncio Lima; locality: Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor, Serra do Moa , trail to Cachoeira Formosa ; verbatimElevation: 273 m; minimumElevationInMeters: 273; verbatimCoordinates: 07°24'31"S, 73°39'51"W; verbatimLatitude: 07°24'31"S; verbatimLongitude: 73°39'51"W; decimalLatitude: -7.408611; decimalLongitude: -73.664167; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A. Salino; dateIdentified: 2011-12; Event: eventDate: 2010-12-14; year: 2010; month: 12; day: 14; Record Level: type: specimen; language: Portuguese; collectionCode: BHCB

Distribution

Previously known distribution: Ecuador and Peru ( Tryon et al. 1991). Fig. 11.

Ecology

Occurs as epiphyte or terrestrial in wet forest.

Taxon discussion

According to Tryon et al. (1991), this species resembles Elaphoglossum tectum (Willd.) T.Moore but differs from it by having glandular dots in the abaxial surface instead of stellate trichomes.