Asplenium flabellulatum Kunze

  • Authority

    Mickel, John T. & Beitel, Joseph M. 1988. Pteridophyte Flora of Oaxaca, Mexico. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 46: 1-580.

  • Family

    Aspleniaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Asplenium flabellulatum Kunze

  • Description

    Species Description - Similar to Asplenium radicans except: rhizome scales 3-5 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide; pinnules lobed or deeply dentate (especially basal pinnules) to basal acroscopic pinnules lobed with free basal segment (thus 3-pinnate); segments cuneate or petiolulate at base; sori 1-4 per segment; indusia 1-2 mm long, 0.3 mm wide, suberose.

  • Discussion

    Asplenium fiabellulatum Kunze var. dentatum Klotzsch, nom. superfl., Linnaea 20: 357. 1847. A. radicans Linnaeus var. dentatum (Klotzsch) Bonaparte, Notes pterid. 7: 349. 1918. Lectotype (chosen by Morton & Lellinger, 1966: 37). Peru. Pampayaco, Poeppig 1145 (B!, frag. NY!; isolectotype W, photo BM). A. fiabellulatum Kunze var. partitum Klotzsch, Linnaea 20: 357. 1847. Asplenium partitum (Klotzsch) Christensen, Index filic. 125. 1905. Asplenium radicans Linnaeus var. partitum (Klotzsch) Hieronymus, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 34:464. 1904. Lectotype (chosen by Morton & Lellinger, 1966: 37). Venezuela. Caracas, Otto 651 (B!, frag. NY!). Asplenium fiabellulatum is part of the A. radicans complex with castaneous stipes and long flagelliform, proliferous tips. See discussion under A. radicans.

  • Distribution

    Terrestrial, in wet montane forest; Ixtlán, Tuxtepec; 600-2450 m. Mexico (Oax, Chis); Guat to Pan; Cuba, Jam, Hisp; Col & Ven to Peru.

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