Asplenium flabellulatum Kunze, Linnaea

Kessler, Michael & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXIX. Aspleniaceae, Phytotaxa 344 (3), pp. 259-280 : 259-280

Asplenium flabellulatum Kunze, Linnaea 9: 71. 1834.

Range:— Antilles; southern Mexico to Bolivia (BE, CO, LP) and Brazil.

Ecology:— Common; terrestrial, often on slopes and ravine banks, in humid forests; 650–2400 m (down to sea level elsewhere).

Notes:— Asplenium radicans L. s.l. (an historically confusing species comprising several distinct taxa), from Mexico to Peru and Brazil, has been cited for Bolivia ( Foster 1958), but we have not seen specimens; however, its presence is likely. It has deeply pinnate-pinnatifid to barely 2-pinnate blade dissection intermediate between A. cirrhatum and A. flabellulatum . The rhizome scales are shorter (2–3 vs. 3–5 mm long) and the indusia longer (4–5 vs. 1–4 mm long) than in A. flabellulatum and A. uniseriale .