Melpomene peruviana (Desv.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran, Novon

Smith, Alan R., Kessler, Michael, León, Blanca, Almeida, Thaís Elias, Jiménez-Pérez, Iván & Lehnert, Marcus, 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XL. Polypodiaceae, Phytotaxa 354 (1), pp. 448-450 : 448-450

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scientific name

Melpomene peruviana (Desv.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran, Novon
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Melpomene peruviana (Desv.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran, Novon View in CoL 2(4): 430. 1992.

= Polypodium peruvianum Desv. var. subgibbosum Rosenst., Meded. Rijks-Herb. 19: 16. 1913.

= Grammitis peruviana (Desv.) C.V.Morton, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 38: 115. 1967.

Range: —Southern Mexico; Colombia to western Venezuela and Bolivia ( CH, CO, LP, SC, TA), northern Argentina.

Ecology: —Very common; terrestrial or in rock crevices, occasionally epiphytic, in paramos, punas, wet montane forests, cloud forests; (1500) 2100–4700 m.

Notes: —Characterized by small fronds, elliptic blades, short-creeping, often branching rhizomes with short internodes, and short segments less than 5 mm long. In Bolivia, it is most similar to M. personata , but its fronds are generally smaller and have setiform hairs, rarely longer than 1.5 mm, evenly distributed on the lamina abaxially (vs. to 2 mm and clustered in the sori in M. personata ).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Polypodiales

Family

Polypodiaceae

Genus

Melpomene

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Polypodiales

Family

Polypodiaceae

Genus

Polypodium

Loc

Melpomene peruviana (Desv.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran, Novon

Smith, Alan R., Kessler, Michael, León, Blanca, Almeida, Thaís Elias, Jiménez-Pérez, Iván & Lehnert, Marcus 2018
2018
Loc

Melpomene peruviana (Desv.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran, Novon

R. C. Moran 1992: 430
1992
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