Dicranopteris, Bernhardi, 1806

Lima, Lucas Vieira & Salino, Alexandre, 2018, The fern family Gleicheniaceae (Polypodiopsida) in Brazil, Phytotaxa 358 (3), pp. 199-234 : 201

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.358.3.1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/823687ED-7F22-9616-FF04-99A6FA26254C

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Dicranopteris
status

 

Key to the Brazilian species of Dicranopteris View in CoL

1. Abaxial blade surface glabrous, only with unicellular globose glandular hairs on the secondary veins .......................... D. flexuosa View in CoL

- Abaxial blade surface pubescent, with multicellular hairs or, when present, unicellular bacilliform glandular hairs on secondary veins....................................................................................................................................................................................................2

2. Plants erect; fronds forked once (rarely twice); ultimate branches with caudate apex; accessory branches entire to slightly lobed at the base, dissimilar to the ultimate branches ...................................................................................................................... D. nervosa View in CoL

- Plants scrambling; fronds forked two to several times; ultimate branches with pinnatifid apex, accessory branches pinnatisect, similar to the ultimate branches..........................................................................................................................................................3

3. Segments ascendant, occasionally patent, with multicellular hairs restrict to the segments midrib, and bacilliform glandular hairs on secondary veins (southeast and northeast Brazil)....................................................................................................... D. rufinervis View in CoL

- Segments patent to retroflex, with multicellular hairs on the segments midrib and secondary veins, glandular hairs absent (north Brazil, Guiana Shield) ..................................................................................................................................................... D. seminuda View in CoL

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