Asplenium abscissum Willd.
EOL Text
Puerto Rico
Origin: Unknown/Undetermined
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
United States
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
Virgin Islands, U.S.
Origin: Unknown/Undetermined
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Fla.; Mexico; West Indies in the Antilles; Central America; South America to Bolivia and Brazil.
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Roots proliferous. Stems erect, unbranched; scales brown throughout, linear-deltate, 1.2 × 0.1--0.3 mm, margins entire. Leaves monomorphic. Petiole green throughout, dull, 3--15(--20) cm, 1/3--2/3 length of blade; indument absent. Blade deltate, 1-pinnate, 7--12(--20) × 3--6(--9) cm, thick, papery, glabrous; base not tapered; apex attenuate, not rooting. Rachis green throughout, dull, glabrous. Pinnae in 4--8 pairs, linear-lanceolate; medial pinnae 30--70 × 7--15 mm, slightly curved, strongly excavated in proximal basiscopic 1/3; base with small acroscopic auricle; margins entire to dentate; apex attenuate. Veins free, obscure. Sori 2--9 pairs, medial, commonly 1--2 less on basiscopic side than on acroscopic side. Spores 64 per sporangium. 2 n = 72.
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Isotype for Asplenium polymorphum M. Martens & Galeotti
Catalog Number: US 534115
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Verified from the card file of type specimens
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): H. G. Galeotti
Locality: E of Monserrat, Mexico, Central America
- Isotype: Martens, M. & Galeotti, H. G. 1842. Nouv. Mem. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles. 15: 56.
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Comments: Epipetric on calcareous rocks or sometimes terrestrial on soils derived from calcareous rocks.
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Shaded limestone boulders, cliff ledges, grottoes, sinkholes; 0--50m.
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The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 2
Specimens with Barcodes: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1
Rounded Global Status Rank: G3 - Vulnerable
Reasons: Occasional in Florida pennisula. Also in Greater and Lesser Antilles, Trinidad and continental tropical America from Mexico to Brazil and Bolivia. EGR supports GRANK of G4G5.