Tectaria poeppigii (C.Presl) C.Chr., Index Filic., Suppl.

Kessler, Michael & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXVIII. Tectariaceae, Phytotaxa 334 (3), pp. 248-254 : 252

Tectaria poeppigii (C.Presl) C.Chr., Index Filic., Suppl. 3: 183. 1934.

Range: — Ecuador, Bolivia (CO); southeastern Brazil.

Ecology: — Rare, known from three Bolivian collections: Kessler 13004, LPB, UC ; Portugal 599, LPB, UC ; Wood & Wasshausen 13922, UC ); terrestrial in humid forests; 1300–1700 m. This last collection was cited as a paratype of T. jimenezii .

Notes: —A large-fronded species, with entire pinnae to ca. 30 × 8 cm, excluding the basiscopic lobe on the proximal pinna pair, which is ca. 10 cm long. Sori in 2–4 regular to somewhat irregular rows between main lateral veins (to 1.5 cm apart); terminal blade segment large, to 30 cm, with two large basal lobes to ca. 15 × 4.5 cm; rachises nearly glabrous abaxially, with dense, uniform, glandular hairs to 0.1 mm adaxially; costae glabrous or nearly so abaxially; indusia peltate or nearly so, minutely glandular to glabrescent, ca. 1 mm diam; many sori tend to athyrioid (J-shaped), lunate, or elongate in this species, a feature seen on the last two collections cited above.

On the surface, this species seems very similar to, and perhaps not distinguishable from T. sodiroi (Baker) Maxon , type from Ecuador, and ascribed to Colombia to Bolivia. This name was rejected by Tryon & Stolze (1993) because it was was a mixed collection and untypifiable; nonetheless, they placed the name in synonymy under T. antioquoiana . What has been called T. sodiroi in herbaria may be the same as T. chimborazensis (C.Chr.) C.Chr. also from Ecuador. If T. poeppigii is conspecific with any of these taxa, it has priority.