Six new combinations and one new natural hybrid of ferns from Sri Lanka
Author
Rajapaksha, Ranil
text
Phytotaxa
2021
2021-07-15
511
2
183
186
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.511.2.6
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.511.2.6
1179-3163
5426642
1.
Hymenasplenium amoenum
(C.Presl ex Mett.) Ranil
comb. nov
.
Basionym:
Asplenium amoenum
C.Presl ex Mett., (1859:131)
.
Type
:—
NEPAL
, 1821,
Wallich
209.1
(
K
,
lectotype
designated by Fraser-Jenkins, Taxon. Revis. Indian Subcontinental Pteridophytes 164 (2008))
Distribution:—
Bhutan
,
China
,
India
,
Myanmar
,
Nepal
,
Sri Lanka
and
Taiwan
.
Note:—The African species,
Hmenasplenium unilaterale
(Lam.) Hayata
, is widely misreported and confused from
India
and other parts of Asia in error for
H. amoenum
(
Fraser-Jenkins, 2008
; Fraser-Jenkins et., 2017). The nomenclatural ambiguity of
A. amoenum
has adequately discussed by
Fraser-Jenkins (2008)
. According to him
Asplenium amoenum
C.Presl ex Mett.
Ueb. Einig. Farngttungen
9:131 (1859)
[
Abhandl. Senckenb. Nat. Ges
. 3 131 (1859)], was based on
Asplenium laetum
Wall.
,
nom, nud., Num. List
.: no 209, from
Nepal
, 1820, which Presl listed in
Ten. Pterid
.: 107 [not 108, as given by Mettenius] (1836), but did not describe.