Lomariopsis Fée, Mém. Foug.

Kessler, Michael & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXVI. Lomariopsidaceae, Phytotaxa 344 (1), pp. 87-90 : 88

Lomariopsis Fée, Mém. Foug. 2. Hist. Acrostich.: 10. 1845.

Lomariopsis is recognized by long-creeping, high-climbing rhizomes, 1-pinnate blades, articulate pinnae with free veins, conform apical pinnae, whitish, cartilagineous pinna margins, and dimorphic leaves with acrostichoid sporangia ( Underwood 1906, Moran 2000). The plants are hemiepiphytes, starting around the bases of trunks and growing upward, sending long feeding roots into the soil, at least along the basal portions of the rhizome. A pantropical genus with 15 species in the Neotropics ( Moran 2000), perhaps 40 more in Africa, Asia, Malesia, and Polynesia. Phylogenetically, Lomariopsis is sister to Dracoglossum , and these two in turn to Cyclopeltis ( Rouhan et al. 2007, Christenhusz et al. 2013). In Costa Rica, an interspecific hybrid has been documented in Lomariopsis ( Moran & Watkins 2004) , and hybrids between co-occurring species are possible in Bolivia.