Polytaenium feei (W.Schaffn. ex Fée) Maxon
-
Authority
Proctor, George R. 1989. Ferns of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 53: 1-389.
-
Family
Pteridaceae
-
Scientific Name
-
Description
Species Description - Rhizome very short-creeping, covered with a dense mass of feltlike golden-tomentose roots, and bearing tufts ofthin and delicate, light brown, iridescent-clathrate, lanceolate scales mostly 2-3 mm long, these attenuate at apex and with conspicuously denticulate margins. Fronds rather densely clustered, linear-oblanceolate, mostly 15-40 cm long (rarely more or less), long-tapering to apex and base; costa prominent on abaxial side; veins indistinct, copiously reticulate, the areoles somewhat elongate and essentially parallel to the rhachis, in about 3-5 series; tissue dull green, somewhat fleshy and flaccid in life, opaque, thinly paperly when dried. Soral lines very slightly immersed or nearly superficial, thin and flexuous, broken or discontinuous and never wholly reticulate.
-
Discussion
Fig. 45.
Basionym. Antrophyum feei Schaflfner ex Fee, Mem . foug. 7: 42, t. 22, fig. 1. 1857.
Type. Schaffner 133, from Huatusco, Vera Cruz, Mexico (not seen).
Syn. Hemionitis lanceolata Linnaeus, Sp, pl, 2: 1077. 1753. (Lectotype. Plumier, Traite foug. Amer., t. 127, fig. C (cited as "f. 6" by Linnaeus in error), based on a specimen from St. Vincent. Designated lectotype by Proctor, Fems of Jamaica, p, 258, 1985.)
Antrophyum lanceolatum (Linnaeus) Kaulfuss, Enum. fil. 198. 1824.
Dictyogramme lanceolata (Linnaeus) Trevisan, Atti 1st, Veneto ser. 5, 3: 592. 1877.
Polytaenium lanceolatum (Linnaeus) Benedict, Bull, Torrey Bot. Club 38: 169. 1911, not Desvaux, 1827.
-
Distribution
General Distribution. Greater and Lesser Antilles,
West Indies| Mexico North America| Central America| Colombia South America| Venezuela South America| Guyana South America| Suriname South America| French Guiana South America| Ecuador South America|