New species and combinations in Meniscium (Thelypteridaceae) Author Fernandes, Rozijane Santos Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Botânica, Caixa Postal 486, 30123 - 970, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil Author Yesilyurt, Jovita Cislinski Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Rd, SW 7 5 BD London, UK Author Salino, Alexandre Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Botânica, Caixa Postal 486, 30123 - 970, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil text Phytotaxa 2014 2014-10-29 184 1 1 11 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.184.1.1 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.184.1.1 1179-3163 5153177 Meniscium cocleanum (A.R.Sm. & Lellinger) R.S.Fernandes & Salino , comb. nov. Thelypteris cocleana Smith & Lellinger (1985: 918) . Type :— PANAMA . Coclé : “El Copé, along gravel road to right before sawmill, 2400 ft ,” Province of Coclé , 731 m , 18 October 1979 , T. Antonio 2188 ( holotype UC, isotype MO). Selected specimens examined:— NICARAGUA . Rio San Juan , Caltillo , Reserva Indio-Maiz , Cerro el Diablo , 11°01’N , 84°12’W , 350–609 m , 9 December 1998 , R . Rueda et al. 9689 ( MO ) . COSTA RICA . Guanacaste , Cantón de Tilaran , 10°37’40’’N , 84°59’45’’W , 1050 m , 26 July 1995 , A . Rojas & Rodríguez 2089 ( BM , MO ); Canton de La Cruz , 10°59’25’’N , 85°25’40’’W , 700–800 m , 4 September 1996 , A . Rojas & M . Mata 2996 ( UC ) . PANAMA . Coclé . El Cope , Parque Nacional G .D. Omar Torrijos Herrera , 08°40’13’’N , 80°35’26’’W , 725 m , 7 July 2012 , A . Salino et al. 15361 ( BHCB ) ; Veraguas , 08°35’N , 81°05’W , 1100–1400 m , 15 July 1983 , C . Hamilton & K . Krager 3981 ( UC ), 20 February 1983 , C . Hamilton & R . Dressler 3069 ( MO , UC ), 3 April 1980 , T . Antonio 3958 ( MO ) ; Coclé , 19 January 1978 , T . B . Croat 44555 ( MO , UC ) . Distribution and habitat:— Meniscium cocleanum is distributed from Nicaragua , Costa Rica , and Panama . It usually grows inside or along the edges of tropical evergreen forest formations, on hillsides, often along trails, at 350–1050 m . Notes:— Meniscium cocleanum was, until this study, the only species of the genus known to have buds in the distal pinnae. Smith & Lellinger (1985) stated that the affinities of this species are uncertain. The new species described in this paper ( Meniscium triangularis ) also has distal proliferous buds, however, M. cocleanum has completely glabrous laminae whereas M. triangularis has a dense indument of scales and trichomes abaxially. Other differences have been previously discussed above.