Polypodium flagellare Christ 1896

Almeida, Thais Elias & Salino, Alexandre, 2015, Thirteen new records of ferns from Brazil, Biodiversity Data Journal 3, pp. 4421-4421 : 4421

Polypodium flagellare Christ 1896

Polypodiaceae

Polypodium flagellare Christ, Bull. Herb. Boissier 4(10): 660. 1896. Type: Costa Rica, Biolley 2671 (BR). Fig. 16.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BHCB 136570 ; recordNumber: T.E. Almeida 2219; recordedBy: T.E. Almeida et al.; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:206959-2; scientificName: Polypodiumflagellare Christ; kingdom: Plantae; class: Polypodiopsida; order: Polypodiales; family: Polypodiaceae; genus: Polypodium; specificEpithet: flagellare; scientificNameAuthorship: Christ; Location: continent: South America; country: Brazil; countryCode: BR; stateProvince: Pará; municipality: Canaã dos Carajás; locality: Floresta Nacional de Carajas , Serra Sul ; verbatimElevation: 611 m; minimumElevationInMeters: 611; verbatimCoordinates: 06°22'44"S, 50°22'38"W; verbatimLatitude: 06°22'44"S; verbatimLongitude: 50°22'38"W; decimalLatitude: -6.378889; decimalLongitude: -50.377222; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: A.R. Smith; dateIdentified: 2010-03; Event: eventDate: 2010-02-16; year: 2010; month: 2; day: 16; Record Level: type: specimen; language: Portuguese; collectionCode: BHCB Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: BHCB 140427 ; recordNumber: D.T. Souza 1129; recordedBy: D.T. Souza et al.; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:206959-2; scientificName: Polypodiumflagellare Christ; kingdom: Plantae; class: Polypodiopsida; order: Polypodiales; family: Polypodiaceae; genus: Polypodium; specificEpithet: flagellare; scientificNameAuthorship: Christ; Location: continent: South America; country: Brazil; countryCode: BR; stateProvince: Pará; municipality: Canaã dos Carajás; locality: Floresta Nacional de Carajas , Serra Sul ; verbatimElevation: 677 m; minimumElevationInMeters: 677; verbatimCoordinates: 06°20'41"S, 50°27'05"W; verbatimLatitude: 06°20'41"S; verbatimLongitude: 50°27'05"W; decimalLatitude: -6.344722; decimalLongitude: -50.451389; geodeticDatum: WGS84; Identification: identifiedBy: T.E. Almeida; dateIdentified: 2010-06; Event: eventDate: 2010-05-21; year: 2010; month: 5; day: 21; Record Level: type: specimen; language: Portuguese; collectionCode: BHCB

Distribution

Previously known distribution: Costa Rica, French Guiana, Panama and Suriname ( Moran 1995c). Fig. 17.

Ecology

Occurs as epiphyte in montane rainforest.

Taxon discussion

This species can be recognized by the pendent leaves, one row of areoles between costa and margin and pinnae sessile to adnate ( Moran 1995c). Affinities of P. flagellare as well as the relationships among Polypodium s.s. species are still uncertain ( Tejero-Díez 2005).