Alansmia smithii (A.Rojas) Moguel & M.Kessler

• Region

  South America

• Country

  Ecuador

• State/Province

  Napo

• Locality

  Roadside "knoll" (cut-off from the rest of the mountainside by the highway), 31.3 km south of Baeza.

• Elevation

  Alt. 2040 m. (6693 ft.)

• Coordinates

  -0.62975, -77.8106

• Location Notes

  [South America]

• Distribution

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The New York Botanical Garden
Amr. t*.. Sha.A«**- "Z-^16
Ferns of Ecuador
Napo Province
POLYPODIACEAE
C.J.Rothfels #3718, with P.Rothfels, E.Sigel, M.McHenry.	2010-March-7
Roadside "knoll" (cut-off from rest of the mountainside by the highway), 31.3km south
of Baeza. Wet montane forest. Common on mossy lower portions of mid-diameter
angiosperm trunks, in lush wet broadleaf forest slope, slightly disturbed, with diverse
understory. With small palms, treeferns, lots of Danaea, Polybotrya, small pedate Pteris,
Diplazium, etc.
S0.62974 W77.81055 +/-30m. WGS 84.2040 m elevation.
Duplicates: 4, to QCA, DUKE, NY, UC. Made four grammitid collections here: a big one (3716); a "crinkly"
one (3718); one with widely spaced pinnules (3719), and a smaller one that was growng on a horizontal fallen
trunk (3720). Chromosome material fixed, from the DUKE specimen. 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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