Adiantum villosissimum Mett. ex Kuhn, Linnaea

Kessler, Michael, Smith, Alan R. & Prado, Jefferson, 2017, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXVII. Pteridaceae, Phytotaxa 332 (3), pp. 201-250 : 240

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.332.3.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13723986

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scientific name

Adiantum villosissimum Mett. ex Kuhn, Linnaea
status

 

Adiantum villosissimum Mett. ex Kuhn, Linnaea View in CoL 36: 73. 1869.

Range: — Ecuador to Bolivia (BE, CO, LP, SC).

Ecology: —Uncommon, terrestrial in lowland evergreen forests; 250–1450 m.

Notes: —Related to A. scalare , which see. Distinguished by the 2-pinnate blades (rarely 1-pinnate) with only 2 or 3 pairs of lateral pinnae and pinnules 4–5 times longer than wide, 30–35 pairs per pinna. Rhizomes, stout, short-creeping, nodose; rachises scaly, scales with ciliate margins and pectinate bases; margins of sterile pinnules sparingly serrate; both surfaces with hairs 1–1.5 mm long, articulate, appressed, on and between veins; sori 1–3 per pinnule on acroscopic margins; indusia oblong, arcuate, bearing articulate hairs.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Polypodiales

Family

Pteridaceae

Genus

Adiantum

Loc

Adiantum villosissimum Mett. ex Kuhn, Linnaea

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

Adiantum villosissimum Mett. ex

Kuhn 1869: 73
1869
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