Pterozonium reniforme (Mart.) Fée

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett. 1967. The botany of the Guayana Highland--Part VII. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 17: 1-439.

  • Family

    Pteridaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Pterozonium reniforme (Mart.) Fée

  • Description

    Species Description - Rhizomes ascending, usually free from their substrate for most of their length, ca 1 cm thick. 10 cm long, densely covered with soft, brown to reddish-brown hairs; fronds simple, 2-40 cm long; laminae reniform (broadly oblanceolate to deltoid in the smallest specimens), 1-10 em long, 1-11 em wide, glabrous, the margins usually entire, sometimes crenulate in the smaller specimens, plane or slightly incurved; sori in a submarginal band 2-20 mm wide and 1-5 mm from tlie margins; paraphyses multicellular, short, stiflf, iwldish-brown. the glandular terminal cell swollen; wax yellow, orange, or absent.

  • Discussion

    Gymnogwmma nniiormis Mart., Io, PL Crypt. Bras. SS. t.2iK lSo4 Type. Mount Cupati [Cerro de Cupati, between the Rio Apaporis and the Rio Caquetti], Amazonas. Colombia [not "Brasilia"!. Martius s.n. (BR? not seen, isotvpes H B G photograph 5342 US, USV

    Trichiogramme Tiniionnis (Mart.) Kuhn, Chaetopterides

    Pterozonium rtniformc viir uhi Brause, Xotizbl, Bot. Gart. Berl. 6: UO. 1914. Type. Rio Cuquenan, Venezuela, an Felsen am Queweweode