Hypolepis repens (L.) C.Presl

  • Authority

    Mickel, John T. & Smith, Alan R. 2004. The pteridophytes of Mexico. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 88: 1-1054.

  • Family

    Dennstaedtiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Hypolepis repens (L.) C.Presl

  • Description

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    Species Description - Rhizomes long-creeping, 5–10 mm diam., with brown hairs; fronds 2–4 m long, distant; stipes ca. 1/2 the frond length, dark at bases, stramineous to brown adaxially, with short, straight, stramineous spines and many spreading hairs 1–2 mm long (with the spines onto the tertiary axes); blades deltate to long-deltate, 3–4-pinnate-pinnatifid, to 1.5 m wide; pinnae deltate, equilateral, stalked; segments pinnatifid, lobes oblong, rounded, slightly ascending; laminae lustrous beneath, firm to coriaceous, jointed hairs adaxially sparse on axes and major veins, jointed hairs abaxially common on laminae; veins ending at blade margins, with slender tips, lighter than the laminae; sori submarginal, indusia well developed, subentire or irregularly toothed scarious flaps, oblong, 0.8–1 x 0.1–0.3 mm, 1 per lobe; 2n =104 (CR), 208 (Fla).

  • Discussion

    Lonchitis repens L., Sp. Pl. 2: 1078. 1753. Cheilanthes repens (L.) Kaulf., Enum. Filic. 215. 1824. Lectotype (chosen by Proctor, Fl. L. Antill. 2: 130. 1977). Plumier, Traite´ Foug. Ame´r., pl. 12, 1705, based on a plant from Martinique (“le mont Noe¨l, & montant le Morne la Calebasse”).

    Hypolepis mexicana Liebm., Mexic. Bregn. 260 (reprint 108). 1849. Lectotype (chosen by Smith, 1981: 137). Mexico. Oaxaca: “Hacienda de Sta. Gertrudes ved Talea og Mina de Dolores,” Liebmann [Pl. Mex. 2751, Fl. Mex. 803] (C!; isolectotypes BM, US!-frag. NY!).

    This is the most common and widespread species of the genus in America. For comparison with taxa having spiny axes, see discussion under H. blepharochlaena and H. microchlaena

  • Distribution

    Margins of wet forests, roadsides and clearings at mid-elevation on Atlantic slope; 450–1800 m. USA (Fla); Mexico; Guat, Bel, Hond, Salv, Nic, CR, Pan; Cuba, PR, L Ant; Col, Ven, Trin, Guy, Sur, Fr Gui, Ec, Peru, Braz, Bol, Arg.

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