Phlebodium

  • Authority

    Mickel, John T. & Smith, Alan R. 2004. The pteridophytes of Mexico. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 88: 1-1054.

  • Family

    Polypodiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Phlebodium

  • Description

    Genus Description - Epiphytic or epipetric; rhizomes creeping, branched, glaucous; rhizome scales concolorous, brown to golden, nonclathrate, peltately attached, surfaces glabrous, margins ciliate; fronds monomorphic, articulate; stipes brown to stramineous, channelled adaxially; blades deeply pinnatifid to pinnatisect with rounded sinuses, broadly oblong to subdeltate; pinnae broad, entire, chartaceous to coriaceous, usually glabrous, often glaucous; veins netted, row of costal areoles without free included veins, then one to several rows of additional areoles, these with or without free included veins; sori round, exindusiate, within areole at the union of merging, included veins, in 1 to 7 rows between costa and segment margin, paraphyses absent; sporangia glabrous; spores bilateral, coarsely tuberculate; x=37.

  • Discussion

    Chrysopteris Link, Fil. Spec. 120. Sep 1841, nom. superfl. for Phlebodium.

    Epiphytic or epipetric; rhizomes creeping, branched, glaucous; rhizome scales concolorous, brown to golden, nonclathrate, peltately attached, surfaces glabrous, margins ciliate; fronds monomorphic, articulate; stipes brown to stramineous, channelled adaxially; blades deeply pinnatifid to pinnatisect with rounded sinuses, broadly oblong to subdeltate; pinnae broad, entire, chartaceous to coriaceous, usually glabrous, often glaucous; veins netted, row of costal areoles without free included veins, then one to several rows of additional areoles, these with or without free included veins; sori round, exindusiate, within areole at the union of merging, included veins, in 1 to 7 rows between costa and segment margin, paraphyses absent; sporangia glabrous; spores bilateral, coarsely tuberculate; x=37.