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 furcatus (L.) Ching (1940: 283) . Acrostichum furcatum Linnaeus (1759: 1321) . Mertensia furcata (L.) Willdenow (1804: 166) . Gleichenia furcata (L.) Sprengel (1827: 26) . Type (designated by Proctor, 1977):—MARTINIQUE. Morne de la Calebasse, Plumier, Descr. Pl. Amér. tab. 20. 1693. Mertensia palmata W.Schaffn. ex E.Fourn. in Schaffner (1857: 40) . Gleichenia palmata (W.Schaffn. ex E.Fourn) Moore (1862: 380) . Dicranopteris palmata (W.Schaffn. ex E.Fourn.) Underwood (1907: 259) . Sticherus palmatus (W.Schaffn. ex E.Fourn.) Copeland (1947: 28) . Type: — MEXICO . 1857, Schaffner s.n. ( holotype P!, photo US !). Distribution and ecology: —Mountains of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Cuba, Jamaica, and Martinique. Wet montane forests at 800–2400 m on the mainland, and 750–1600 m on the Caribbean Islands.