A synopsis of the Neotropical species of Sticherus (Gleicheniaceae), with descriptions of nine new species Author Gonzales, Jasivia Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Casilla 10077, La Paz, Bolivia. Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH- 8008 Zurich, Switzerland. E-mail: michael. kessler @ systbot. uzh. ch Author Kessler, Michael text Phytotaxa 2011 2011-12-31 31 1 54 journal article 6085 10.11646/phytotaxa.31.1.1 2185a8cf-c15c-448b-b8c0-6055976408ed 1179-3163 4894648 Sticherus velatus (Kunze) Copeland (1947: 28) Mertensia velata Kunze (1834: 15) . Gleichenia velata (Kunze) Mettenius (1856: 113) . Dicranopteris velata (Kunze) Maxon (1922a: 50) . Type: — PERU . Huánuco : Pampayacu, July 1829 , Poeppig s.n . ( holotype W , the fragment of Poeppig s.n. at US annotated as isotype of S. velatus is S. lanosus ). Distribution and ecology:— Disjunct and apparently nowhere common in the Andes of Venezeula, Ecuador , Peru , and Bolivia , and in southeastern Brazil . In montane forests, clearings, and along roadsides at 1500–2400 m , down to 900 m in Brazil .