Elaphoglossum herminieri (Bory ex Fée) T.Moore

  • 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

    Elaphoglossum herminieri (Bory ex Fée) T.Moore

  • Description

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    Species Description - Rhizome decumbent to erect, stout, 1-2 cm thick (excluding scales), densely clothed with loosely matted, light orange-brown, linear scales up to 2.5 cm long or more, these attenuate at apex, flat or crispate, with distantly ciliate margins. Fronds closely clustered at apex of rhizome, pendent; stipes very short. Sterile fronds up to 80 cm long or more; stipes not sharply differentiated from blades, seldom more than 1 cm long, with weakly defined phyllopodium; blades elongate-linear, metallic blue-green, 1.5-3(-4) cm broad near the middle, narrowed-attenuate at both ends; veins immersed, mostly 2- to 3-forked, with scarcely enlarged tips reaching the cartilaginous margins; tissue thick, coriaceous, opaque, very minutely punctate-scaly on both sides, the scattered scales pale brown, stellate-glandular, and deciduous. Fertile fronds infrequently produced, very much smaller than the sterile ones, with blades 10-16 cm long, 1.5-5 cm broad.

  • Discussion

    Basionym. Acrostichum herminieri Bory & Fee ex Fee, Mem. foug. 2: 43, t. 11. 1845.

    Type. LHerminier, from Guadeloupe (Herb. Bory, P, isotypes GH, RB).

  • Distribution

    General Distribution. Greater and Lesser Antilles; Central and northem South America.

    Central America| West Indies| South America|