Asplenium auritum var. bipinnatifidum Kunze
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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
Aspleniaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Distribution and Ecology - General Distribution. Greater Antilles exceptCuba; Lesser Antilles, Trinidad, and continentaltropical America.Distribution in Puerto Rico. Confined to higher parts of the Cordillera Central; recorded from Adjuntas, Jayuya, Penuelas, and Yauco.Habitat. Tenestrial in shaded humus, or on mossy boulders, at high elevations (1000-1120 m), locally frequent.
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Discussion
Type. Leibold 14, from Mexico (LZ, destroyed; not seen).
Syn. Asplenium dissectum Gmelin in Linnaeus, Syst. Nated. 13,2(2): 1302. 1791, not Swartz, 1788.
(Type. Plumier, Traite foug. Amer., t. 46, based on a plant from Morne de la Calebasse, Martinique.
Asplenium rigidum Swartz, Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Handl. 38:68. 1817. (Type. Freyreis, from Villa Rica, Minas Gerais, Brazil, S, photo US.)
Asplenium recognitum Kunze, Linnaea 22: 577. 1849. (Type. Plumier, t. 46, cited above.)
Asplenium dispersum Kunze, Linnaea 23:233,304. 1850. (Type. Ex Hort. Berol, B, photo US.)
Asplenium auritum var. bipinnatisectum Mettenius, Abh, Senckenberg, Naturf Ges, 3: 147. 1858. (Lectotype. Schiede & Beppe 773, from Mexico, B.)
Asplenium auritum var. rigidum (Swartz) Hooker, Sp. fil. 3: 180. I860.
Asplenium auritum var, dispersum (Kunze) Hieronymus, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 34: 567. 1904.
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Distribution
General Distribution. Greater Antilles exceptCuba; Lesser Antilles, Trinidad, and continentaltropical America.Distribution in Puerto Rico. Confined to higher parts of the Cordillera Central; recorded from Adjuntas, Jayuya, Penuelas, and Yauco.Habitat. Tenestrial in shaded humus, or on mossy boulders, at high elevations (1000-1120 m), locally frequent.
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