Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXVII. Nephrolepidaceae 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 2018 2018-01-16 334 2 135 140 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.334.2.3 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.334.2.3 1179-3163 13721390 Nephrolepis pectinata (Willd.) Schott, Gen. Fil. , t. 3. 1834. Range: Greater Antilles ( Jamaica , Cuba ); southern Mexico to Panama ; Colombia to Bolivia , southern Brazil . Ecology: —Rare, known from a single Bolivian collection: Williams 1107 (NY); epiphytic, less commonly on rocks or terrestrial, in humid forests and disturbed habitats; 1200 m . Notes: —Rhizomes erect, stolons lacking tubers; rhizome scales weakly bicolorous; pinnae parallel-sided, the bases basiscopically cuneate, ± perpendicular to rachises; indusia at pinna apices lunate or reniform (semicircular), with broad, open sinuses, or the sinuses lacking. This species is much more common in Peru and northward in the Andes and Mesoamerica. It shows a sister relationship with N. rivularis in the analysis by Yahaya et al . (2016) .