Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXVII. Pteridaceae
Author
Kessler, Michael
Systematic 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
Author
Prado, Jefferson
Instituto de Botânica, Av. Miguel Estéfano, 3687, CEP 04301 - 902, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
text
Phytotaxa
2017
2017-12-22
332
3
201
250
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.332.3.1
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.332.3.1
1179-3163
Adiantum solomonii
J.Prado, Brittonia
58(4): 379(–381), fig. 1. 2006.
Range:
—
Bolivia
(BE); endemic.
Ecology:
—Rare (known only from the
type
), terrestrial in lowland forests and along road banks;
250 m
.
Notes:
—A poorly known member of the
Adiantum tetraphyllum
group. Rhizomes short-creeping, nodose; rachises with two kinds of scales: linear to narrowly lanceate with pectinate bases and arachnoid; blades 2-pinnate, with (3–)4–9 pairs of lateral pinnae; pinnules ca. 3 times longer than wide, 18–21 pairs per pinna, reduced toward pinna bases and apices, margins of sterile pinnules denticulate, abaxially with hairlike scales and hairs
1–1.5 mm
on the veins, adaxially glabrous, indusia oblong, bearing long-filiform scales.