Anemia ferruginea Kunth, 2017

Smith, Alan R. & Kessler, Michael, 2017, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XIII. Anemiaceae, Phytotaxa 329 (1), pp. 80-86 : 82

Anemia ferruginea Kunth , Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 32. 1815.

Range:— Colombia to Suriname and Bolivia ( CH, LP, SC), Brazil.

Ecology:— Common; terrestrial in sunny places, open woods, clearings, rocky slopes, and clay banks in semihumid forests; to 2450 m.

Notes:— The Bolivian specimens are assigned to var. ferruginea . Known to hybridize with A. flexuosa ( Mickel 2016, citing Buchtien 794, BM, F, G, K, NY, S, US). Compared to A. tomentosa , A. ferruginea has a more coriaceous lamina texture, on average longer fertile pinnae (much longer than the sterile blades), and more slender, typically darker (dark purplish) petioles, but all these characters vary to some degree.