Hymenophyllum asplenioides (Sw.) Sw.
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Authority
Proctor, George R. 1989. Ferns of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 53: 1-389.
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Family
Hymenophyllaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Rhizome filiform, wide-creeping, light brown, sparingly clothed with deciduous appressed yellowish hairs. Fronds pendent, distant, 7-12(-20) cm long, the capillary glabrous stipes shorter than the blades. Blades ligulate to oblong, 1-3 cm broad (rarely more), rounded-obtuse to acutish at apex, scarcely reduced at the pinnatisect base, upward deeply and coarsely pinnatifid, the flexuous rhachis broadly winged throughout; segments oblique, decurrent, coarsely and obliquely pinnatifid or digitate-lobate (rarely simple), the lobes few, chiefly acroscopic, ca. 3 mm broad, flat, entire, the veins of the sterile ones not reaching the apices; tissue bright green, firmly membranous, pellucid. Soral valves suborbicular to roundish-ovate, 2-2.5 mm broad, immersed about halfway in segment tissue; receptacle included, very short.
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Discussion
Basionym. Trichomanes asplenioides Swartz, Prodr. 136. 1788.
Type. Swartz, from Jamaica without exact locality (S, photo US).
Syn, Mecodium asplenioides (Swartz) Copeland, Philipp. J. Sci. 67: 26. 1938.
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Distribution
General Distribution. Greater Antilles and