Adiantum macrophyllum Sw., Prodr.
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.332.3.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13723902 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038F87DD-FFCE-790D-FF49-FE7EFE8CFD5A |
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Felipe |
scientific name |
Adiantum macrophyllum Sw., Prodr. |
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Adiantum macrophyllum Sw., Prodr. View in CoL 135. 1788.
Range: — Mexico to Panama, Antilles; Colombia to Trinidad, Guianas, and Bolivia (CO, LP, SC); Argentina and Brazil.
Ecology: —Fairly common, terrestrial in wet and semideciduous forests; 400–1500(–2450) m.
Notes: —A widespread, very distinctive, and probably isolated species; occasionally seen in cultivation. Unusual in the reddish young fronds and strictly opposite pinnae. Rhizomes short-creeping, nodose; rachises glabrous; blades 1-pinnate; pinnae ovate-deltate, subsessile or stalked 1–2 mm, glabrous, terminal pinna conform, sterile margins serrulate; sori 2 per pinna, borne on acroscopic and basiscopic margins, absent at bases and apices of pinnae; indusia linear, glabrous.
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