Melpomene peruviana (Desv.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran, Novon

Smith, Alan R., Kessler, Michael, León, Blanca, Almeida, Thaís Elias, Jiménez-Pérez, Iván & Lehnert, Marcus, 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XL. Polypodiaceae, Phytotaxa 354 (1), pp. 448-450 : 448-450

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scientific name	Melpomene peruviana (Desv.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran, Novon
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Melpomene peruviana (Desv.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran, Novon View in CoL 2(4): 430. 1992.

= Polypodium peruvianum Desv. var. subgibbosum Rosenst., Meded. Rijks-Herb. 19: 16. 1913.

= Grammitis peruviana (Desv.) C.V.Morton, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 38: 115. 1967.

Range: —Southern Mexico; Colombia to western Venezuela and Bolivia ( CH, CO, LP, SC, TA), northern Argentina.

Ecology: —Very common; terrestrial or in rock crevices, occasionally epiphytic, in paramos, punas, wet montane forests, cloud forests; (1500) 2100–4700 m.

Notes: —Characterized by small fronds, elliptic blades, short-creeping, often branching rhizomes with short internodes, and short segments less than 5 mm long. In Bolivia, it is most similar to M. personata , but its fronds are generally smaller and have setiform hairs, rarely longer than 1.5 mm, evenly distributed on the lamina abaxially (vs. to 2 mm and clustered in the sori in M. personata ).