Alansmia heteromorpha (Hook. & Grev.) Moguel & M.Kessler

• Region

  South America

• Country

  Ecuador

• State/Province

  Pichincha

• Locality

  Volcan Pichincha, eastern flanks of. Slightly behind the teleferico terminus. On this day we took the teleferico up, and then walked down a gravel/cobblestone road to the bottom, near the monument.

• Elevation

  Alt. 3954 m. (12972 ft.)

• Coordinates

  -0.18614, -78.5384

• Location Notes

  [South America]

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

Ferns of Ecuador
Pichincha Province
POLYPODIA CEAE
Terpsichore heteromorpha (Hook. & Grev.) A.R. Sm.
C.J.Rothfels #3487, with P.Rothfels, M.McHenry.	2010-February-21
Volcan Pichincha, eastern flanks of. Slightly behind the teleferico terminus. On this day
we took the teleferico up, and then walked down a gravel/cobblestone road to the bottom,
near the monument. Abundant, hanging off big clumps of moss, on steep earthen walls
(ash) of narrow deep gully with clear flowing water in bottom. With much moss,
liverworts, Equisetum, cf. Rhychospora, Rosaceae, Polystichum, cf. Anthoxylum, etc.
SO.18613 W78.53836 +/-5m. NAD27 (Canada). 3954 m elevation.
Duplicates: 5, to: QCA, NY, UC, DUKE, Collected three things that looked slightly different here: the
common round-segmented, dense one (CJR 3487); a rarer big, sparse one with irregular segments (3488); and
one that looked intermediate (3489). Trip funded in part by a Lewis and Clark Explorers Grant from the
American Philosophical Society, to C.Rothfels.
This specimen is a voucher for the Pryer lab fern DNA database (www.pryerlab.net).
Please notify the Pryer lab of any annotations.
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