Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXX. Thelypteridaceae Author Smith, Alan R. University Herbarium, 1001 Valley Life Sciences Bldg. # 2465, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 - 2465 Author Kessler, Michael Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH- 8008 Zurich, Switzerland text Phytotaxa 2017 2017-12-08 331 1 1 34 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.331.1.1 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.331.1.1 1179-3163 Meniscium lanceum (A.R.Sm.) R.S.Fern. & Salino, Phytotaxa 184: 8. 2014 . = Thelypteris lancea A.R.Sm., Fieldiana, Bot. , n.s. 29: 74. 1992 . Range: — French Guiana , Ecuador to Bolivia (BE, CH , CO, LP, PA, SC), Paraguay (range according to Fernandes 2015 ). Ecology: —Common; terrestrial in humid forests, often among rocks along streams, in seasonally flooded forests, and in secondary vegetation; 150–1300 m . Notes: —The terminal pinna is often distinctly larger than the lateral ones. The single collection seen from Pando — Jimenez 1995 (UC)—is sterile, and so a bit problematic, but otherwise agrres with several others having rather wide sterile pinnae