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Ferns and relatives / Helechos y afines
Pleopeltis Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
EOL Text
Rhizome creeping, scales clathrate. Fronds spaced apart, monomorphic or sometimes dimorphic, simple to pinnatifid, entire, membranous to fleshy, articulated to the rhizome, with peltate scales on the underside of the lamina. Veins obscure, anastomosing, forming irregular areoles with included free veinlets. Sori large, round, in a single row on each side of the midrib, when young protected by peltate, flattened paraphyses.
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Depth range based on 4 specimens in 1 taxon.
Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 0 - 0
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:40
Specimens with Sequences:39
Specimens with Barcodes:38
Species:29
Species With Barcodes:29
Public Records:38
Public Species:28
Public BINs:0
Pleopeltis is a genus of between 20–50 species of ferns, widely distributed in tropical regions of the world, and also north into temperate regions in eastern North America and eastern Asia.[1][2][3]
The genus is closely related to Polypodium, and many of the species have been or sometimes are still included in that genus; further changes in the circumscription of the genus are expected as research continues.[2]
They are epiphytic, epipetric (growing on rocks), or rarely terrestrial ferns, with a creeping, densely hairy or scaly rhizome bearing fronds at intervals along its length. The fronds are evergreen, persisting for 1–2 years, and are entire or deeply pinnatifid. The sori or groups of spore-cases (sporangia) are borne on the back of the frond.[2]
- Selected species
- Pleopeltis angusta Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
- Pleopeltis astrolepis (Liebm.) E.Fourn.
- Pleopeltis bampsii Pichi-Serm.
- Pleopeltis complanata (Weath.) E.A.Hooper
- Pleopeltis conzattii (Weath.) R. M. Tryon & A.F.Tryon
- Pleopeltis crassinervata (Fée) T. Moore
- Pleopeltis fallax (Schltdl. & Cham.) Mickel & Beitel
- Pleopeltis fossa Moore
- Pleopeltis fructuosa (Maxon & Weath. ex Weath.) Lellinger
- Pleopeltis fuscopunctata (Hook.) R.M.Tryon & A.F.Tryon
- Pleopeltis guttata (Maxon) E.G.Andrews & Windham
- Pleopeltis kolesnikovii Tzvelev
- Pleopeltis macrocarpa (Bory ex Willd.) Kaulf.
- Pleopeltis nicklesii (Tardieu) Alston
- Pleopeltis panamensis (Weath.) Pichi-Serm.
- Pleopeltis percussa (Cav.) Hook. & Grev.
- Pleopeltis pleolepis (Maxon & Copel.) Lellinger
- Pleopeltis pleopeltifolia (Raddi) Alston
- Pleopeltis polylepis (Roem. ex Kunze) T.Moore
- Pleopeltis polypodioides (L.) E.G.Andrews & Windham
- Pleopeltis repanda A.R.Sm.
- Pleopeltis riograndensis (T.Wendt) E.G.Andrews & Windham
- Pleopeltis squalida (Vell.) de la Sota
- Pleopeltis stigmatica Presl
- Pleopeltis thunbergiana Kaulf.
- Pleopeltis thyssanolepis (A.Braun ex Klotzsch) E.G.Andrews & Windham
- Pleopeltis tridens J.Sm.
- Pleopeltis ussuriensis Regel & Maack
References
- ^ a b Ferns of the World: Pleopeltis
- ^ a b c d Flora of North America: Pleopeltis
- ^ a b Germplasm Resources Information Network: Pleopeltis
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