Proctor, George R. 1989. Ferns of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 53: 1-389.
Tectariaceae
Species Description - Rhizome woody, erect, 1.5-2 cm thick (excluding the closely adhering stipe bases), the apex densely clothed with dark brown, lance-deltate, denticulate-fimbriate scales, these 3-7 mm long and 1-2 mm broad near base. Fronds closely clustered, up to 1.5 m long; stipes yellowish, grooved adaxially, about equalling the blades. Blades oblong to ovate-oblong, pinnate, 30-75 cm long, 20-50 cm broad; rhachis grooved on adaxial side, minutely septate-puberulous in the channel; pinnae oblique, the basal pair excavate on the basiscopic side at base and deeply 2-lobate, the lower division shorter than the upper; other lateral pinnae oblong or linear-oblong, acuminate to attenuate-caudate, 1-6 cm broad, sometimes slightly constricted above the inequilateral, semiadnate base, with margins slightly to coarsely sinuate; terminal pinna confluent with the uppermost lateral pinnae; tissue thinly papery, normally glabrous (a pilose variety has been described, but has not been found in Puerto Rico); venation complexly reticulate, the areoles often with a free included veinlet. Sori normally round; indusium persistent, round-reniform, often appearing peltate by overlapping ofthe basal lobes.
Fig. 74.
Type. Ventenat, from Puerto Rico (MA, not seen).
Syn. Polypodium expansum Poiret in Lamarck, Encycl. 5: 523. 1804. (Type from "Amerique," not seen.)
Aspidium martinicense Sprengel, Anleit. Gew. 3: 133. 1804. (Although attributed to Martinique by Sprengel, the material on which this name was based actually was collected in Hispaniola by Poiteau (see Morton, Amer. Fem J. 56: 129. 1966).)Aspidium macrophyllum Rudolphi, Bemerk. Geb. Naturg. 2: 103. 1805; Swartz, Syn. fil. 43, 239. 1806. (A renaming of ^. martinicense Sprengel because the epithet ''martinicense'' was inappropriate; Rudolphi had supplied Sprengel with the original specimen.)
Polypodium repandum Vahl, Eclog. Amer. 3: 53. 1807, not Swartz 1802. (Type from Montserrat, not seen.)
Aspidium longifolium Desvaux, Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Mag. 5: 319. 1811. (Type from "Antilles," not seen.)
Aspidium expansum (Poiret) Desvaux, op. cit. 320.
Nephrodium expansum (Poiret) Desvaux, Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris 6: 261. 1827.
Bathmium macrophyllum (Rudolphi) Link, Fil. spec. 114. 1841.
Cardiochlaena macrophylla (Rudolphi) Fee, Mem. foug. 5:315. 1852.
Cardiochlaena confluens Fee, op. cit. 316. (Type. LHerminier, from Guadeloupe, RB.) (Note: Sori irregular, some elongate or confluent.)
Sagenia macrophylla (Rudolphi) Moore, Index fil. Ixxxvi. 1857.
Sagenia confluens (Fee) Moore, Index fil. 228. 1861.
Nephrodium macrophyllum (Rudolphi) Baker in Hooker & Baker, Syn. fil. 300. 1867.
Bryopteris martinicensis (Sprengel) Kuntze, Revis. gen. pl. 2: 812. 1891.
Tectaria martinicensis (Sprengel) Copeland, Philipp. J. Sci. 2:410. 1907.
Bathmium martinicense (Sprengel) Nakai, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 40: 68. 1926.
Sagenia martinicensis (Sprengel) Farwell, Amer. Midi. Naturalist 12: 259. 1931.
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