New combinations in the fern genus Leptochilus (Polypodiaceae)
Author
Zhang, Liang
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China. & Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw 05282, Myanmar.
Author
Guo, Lei
CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650201, China. & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Author
Zhang, Li-Bing
Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, Missouri 63110, U. S. A.; Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, Chian.
text
Phytotaxa
2018
2018-11-05
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2
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.374.2.10
journal article
10.11646/phytotaxa.374.2.10
1179-3163
Leptochilus evrardii
(
Tardieu
)
Liang Zhang & Li Bing Zhang
,
comb. nov.
Basionym:
Colysis evrardii
Tardieu (1940: 372)
.
Type
:—
VIETNAM
.
Lam Dong Province
:
Dalat
,
17 December 1924
,
Evrard 2250
(
lectotype
P-00709509!;
here designated
)
.
Notes:—When
Colysis evrardii
was published, both
Evrard 2250
and
Evrard 1921
were cited without designating its
type
. This fern is similar to
Leptochilus decurrens
Blume (1828: 206)
, but differs from the latter in having narrower sterile leaves and wider fertile leaves. It is also similar to
Colysis diversifolia
W.M.
Zhu (1979: 93)
and
Leptochilus ×beddomei
(
Manickam & Irudayaraj 1997: 267
) X.C.
Zhang & Nooteboom (2013: 834)
in having narrowly lanceolate fertile leaves with interrupted sori. However, the large leaves of
L. evrardii
are sterile, while the large leaves of
Colysis diversifolia
and
Leptochilus ×beddomei
often have irregularly scattered sori.
The species was resolved as a member of the
Colysis
clade (
Zhang
et al.
2018
), and is most closely related to
L. decurrens
.