Adiantopsis

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett. 1972. The botany of the Guayana Highland--part IX. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 23: 1-832.

  • Family

    Pteridaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Adiantopsis

  • Description

    Genus Description - Rhizomes erect, scaly, the scales narrow, concolorous or weakly bicolorous, brown, moderately stiff, margins entire; stipes and pinna rhachises sulcate or adaxially flattened, with narrow, membranaceous wings, atropurpureous throughout, scaly at the stipe bases, otherwise glabrous; laminae digitate with usually five pinnae, bipinnate, pentagonal; pinnae narrowly rhomboid-elliptic, acute at apex and base; ultimate segments short-petiolulate, subdimidiate, more or less quadrangular, rounded at apex, distally auriculate at base, glabrous; veins simple, free; sori marginal, discrete; indusia scarious, discrete.

  • Discussion

    Cheilanthes § Actiniopteris J. Smith, Bot. Mag. 72: Comp. 20. 1846. Type. Adiantum radiatum L.

    Lectotype. Adiantum radiatum L. [= Adiantopsis radiata (L.) Fee], chosen by Christensen (Ind. Fil. XLI. 1906).

  • Distribution

    Distribution. Five or six species in South America, Central America, and the West Indies, plus one species in Madagascar.

    South America| Central America| West Indies| Madagascar Africa|