Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXVII. Pteridaceae Author Kessler, Michael Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH- 8008 Zurich, Switzerland Author Smith, Alan R. University Herbarium, 1001 Valley Life Sciences Bldg. # 2465, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 - 2465 Author Prado, Jefferson Instituto de Botânica, Av. Miguel Estéfano, 3687, CEP 04301 - 902, São Paulo, SP, Brasil text Phytotaxa 2017 2017-12-22 332 3 201 250 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.332.3.1 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.332.3.1 1179-3163 Adiantum poiretii Wikstr., Kongl. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 1825: 443 . 1826 . Range: — Mexico to Panama ; Hispaniola; Colombia and Venezuela to Bolivia ( CH , CO, LP, SC, TA); Argentina , Brazil , and Chile ; mid-Atlantic islands, Africa, and islands of the Indian Ocean. Ecology: —Very common, terrestrial in montane wet forests; (800–)1800–3300(–3850) m. Notes: —A very widespread species of generally higher elevations, with affinities to species in southern South America (especially Chile ); this and related species are sister to the A. raddianum clade ( Sundue et al. 2010 , Hirai et al . 2016 , Huiet et al . in prep.). Rhizomes long-creeping, scales with margins short-ciliate, rarely entire or sparsely denticulate; rachises glabrous; blades 3-or 4-pinnate proximally, 2-or 3-pinnate distally; pinnules entire, orbicular to flabellate, not articulate, stalked, stalks 1–3 mm long, color of stalks slightly passing into pinnule bases, bases usually symmetric, glabrous; veins ending in sinuses at pinnule margins; sori borne on distal pinnule margins, usually with yellow farina among sporangia; indusia large, occupying 1/3 of pinnule length, lunate to oblong, glabrous.