Bolbitis nicotianifolia (Sw.) Alston

  • Authority

    Proctor, George R. 1989. Ferns of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 53: 1-389.

  • Family

    Dryopteridaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Bolbitis nicotianifolia (Sw.) Alston

  • Description

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    Species Description - Rhizome woody, 5-7 mm thick, wide-creeping or sometimes climbing on mossy boulders or logs, clothed chiefly at apex with dark brown, lanceolate scales 5-10 mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide. Fronds few, 1-5 cm apart; sterile fronds up to 1 m long; stipes usually shorter than the blades. Sterile blades deltate-ovate or ovate-oblong, long-acuminate, 35-60 cm long, 25-45 cm broad, 1-pinnate; lateral pinnae 1-4 pairs, oblique, narrowly pointed-oblong to elliptic-oval, abmptly long-acuminate, 15-25 cm long, 5-9 cm broad, equilateral or nearly so, broadly cuneate or subrotund at base, mostly stalked; terminal pinna much longer than the lateral ones; rhachis and costae distantly and minutely fibrillose-scaly on abaxial side. Stipes of fertile fronds much longer than those of sterile fronds; fertile blades much contracted, the pinnae 6-15 cm long, mostly 1-2 cm broad.

  • Discussion

    Basionym. Acrostichum nicotianifolium Swartz, Syn. fil. 13, 199. 1806.

    Type. Ventenat, from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands (S).

    Syn. Gymnopteris nicotianifolia (Swartz) K. Presl, Tent. pterid. 244. 1836.

    Anapausia nicotianifolia (Swartz) K. Presl, Epimel. bot. 189. 1851.

    Leptochilus nicotianifolia (Swartz) C. Christensen, Bot. Tidsskr. 26: 285. 1904

  • Distribution

    General Distribution. Greater Antilles except

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