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Thelypteridaceae
Species Description - Rhizome short-creeping, subwoody, 5-12 mm thick (excluding stipe bases), at apex bearing a few minute, reddish-brown, lanceolate glabrous scales less than 2 mm long. Fronds erect, subdimorphic, up to 2.5 m long, the fertile ones with longer stipes than the sterile; stipes up to 100 cm long, glabrous or minutely puberulous. Blades deltate-oblong to lance-oblong, 50-150 cm long, 20-60 cm broad, the vascular parts sparsely hirtellous beneath; pinnae ligulate-attenuate to lancedeltate, caudate at apex, the base unequally rounded or broadly cuneate, the margins entire, wavy, or slightly crenate; ultimate veins all joined, forming numerous regular pairs of areoles between the parallel costules. Sori linear-arcuate, usually becoming more or less confluent; indusium lacking. Sporangia glabrous.
Basionym. Polypodium reticulatum Linnaeus, Syst Nat ed. 10,2: 1325. 1759.
Type. LINN 1251.25, from an unknown locality, possibly Jamaica. Linnaeus also cited Plumier, Descr. pl. Amer., t. 9 (=Traite. foug. Amer., t. 110), which illustrates a plant from Martinique.
Syn. Aspleniumsorbifoliumiaccimn,Collecianea2:106, t. 3, fig. 2. 1788. (Type from Martinique, not seen.)
Meniscium sorbifolium (Jacquin) Desrousseaux in Lamarck, Encycl. 4: 93. 1797.
Meniscium reticulatum (Linnaeus) Swartz, J. Bot. (Schrader) 1801(2): 274. 1803.
Biplazium undulosum Swartz, Syn. fil. 92, 284. 1806. (Type from Martinique, not seen.)
Callipteris undulosa (Swartz) K. Presl, Epimel. bot. 90. 1851.
Phegopteris reticulata (Linnaeus) Mettenius, Fil. lechl. 2: 24. 1859.
Nephrodium reticulatum (Linnaeus) Keyserling, Polyp, Herb, bunge. 49. 1873.
Bryopteris reticulata (Linnaeus) Urban, Symb. antill. 4:22. 1903.
Bryopteris sorbifolia (Jacquin) Hieronymus, Hedwigia 46: 350. 1907.
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