Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXII. Athyriaceae
Author
Kessler, Michael
Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH- 8008 Zurich, Switzerland
Author
Smith, Alan R.
University Herbarium, 1001 Valley Life Sciences Bldg. # 2465, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 - 2465
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Phytotaxa
2018
2018-01-16
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.334.2.4
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.334.2.4
1179-3163
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Diplazium praestans
(Copel.) C.V.Morton, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.
38: 41. 1967.
Range:
—Amazonian
Peru
,
Brazil
, and
Bolivia
(BE).
Ecology:
—Rare, known from a single Bolivian collection:
Weigelt 90373
(LPB, TUR, UC, Z); terrestrial in humid forests, collected on steep seepage slope near stream;
250 m
, to
900 m
elsewhere.
Notes:
—Preliminary, unpublished molecular data suggest that this species may not, in fact, be a
Diplazium
, but rather belongs to the
Aspleniaceae
(H. Schneider, pers. comm; W. Testo, pers. comm.), which, with the addition of
Desmophlebium
and
Hemidictyum
, already includes two distinct, phylogenetically basal genera with areolate veins (
Kessler & Smith 2017
b).