Platycerium andinum Baker, Ann. Bot. (Oxford)

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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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.354.1.1

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scientific name

Platycerium andinum Baker, Ann. Bot. (Oxford)
status

 

Platycerium andinum Baker, Ann. Bot. (Oxford) View in CoL 5: 496. 1891.

Range: —Disjunct in dry valleys from northern Peru to Bolivia (LP).

Ecology: —Rare to locally common (in the Tuichi valley); epiphytic in semihumid forests of rain-shadowed inter- Andean valleys, mostly on branch bases and high on tree trunks, occasionally lower down; 1000–1100 m.

Notes: —Large “nests” can be 2 m across, with 1–2 m long, pendent fertile leaves.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Polypodiales

Family

Polypodiaceae

Genus

Platycerium

Loc

Platycerium andinum Baker, Ann. Bot. (Oxford)

Smith, Alan R., Kessler, Michael, León, Blanca, Almeida, Thaís Elias, Jiménez-Pérez, Iván & Lehnert, Marcus 2018
2018
Loc

Platycerium andinum Baker, Ann. Bot. (Oxford)

Baker 1891: 496
1891
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