Melpomene gracilis (Hook.) A.R.Sm., Novon
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.354.1.1 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B6DA7F-7B59-1928-E9AD-03D0FE00FEB8 |
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Felipe |
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Melpomene gracilis (Hook.) A.R.Sm., Novon |
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Melpomene gracilis (Hook.) A.R.Sm., Novon View in CoL 5(1): 21. 1995.
= Grammitis gracilis (Hook.) Stolze, Fieldiana, Bot. View in CoL , n.s., 32: 96. 1993.
Range: — Ecuador, Peru (known only from the type), and Bolivia ( LP) .
Ecology: — Rare, known from a single Bolivian collection: Williams 2622 ( NY); epiphytic in elfin forests, punas; 3300 m (4500 m in Peru) .
Notes: —Related to Melpomene allosuroides , but with less revolute segments and usually lobed margins ( Lehnert 2013).
Melpomene jimenezii Lehnert, Amer. Fern J. 98(4): 227(–229), f. 5A-D, 7D. 2009. Range: —Eastern Peru and Bolivia (LP).
Ecology: —Rare, known from four Bolivian collections; epiphytic in elfin forests and moist montane forests; 3200–3500 m.
Notes: —Differing from most other species of the genus in lacking conspicuous hydathodes adaxially. Superficially similar to M. firma , which differs in having shorter, less densely hairs on the petioles, conspicuous hydathodes, and black costae abaxially.
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Laboratory of Palaeontology |
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William and Lynda Steere Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden |
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Melpomene gracilis (Hook.) A.R.Sm., Novon
| Smith, Alan R., Kessler, Michael, León, Blanca, Almeida, Thaís Elias, Jiménez-Pérez, Iván & Lehnert, Marcus 2018 |
Melpomene gracilis (Hook.) A.R.Sm., Novon
| Hook. 1995: 21 |
Grammitis gracilis (Hook.)
| Stolze 1993: 96 |