Terpsichore contacta (Copel.) Moguel & M. Kessler, 2009

Velázquez, Ana Laura Moguel & Kessler, Michael, 2009, Taxonomic notes on the fern species group around Terpsichore lanigera (Polypodiaceae), including the descriptions of three new species and one new variety, Phytotaxa 2, pp. 35-45 : 36

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.2.1.6
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4776123
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BE0E87A1-B319-FD1B-FF05-FB7D9CBFF9E1
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Terpsichore contacta (Copel.) Moguel & M. Kessler
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Terpsichore contacta (Copel.) Moguel & M. Kessler View in CoL , comb. nov.

Basionym:— Ctenopteris contacta Copeland (1955 View in CoL [1956]: 477).

Type:— BOLIVIA: Yungas , 1890, Bang 483 (holotype, US!; isotypes, B!, F, K!, N!).

This species is characterised by conspicuously linear pinnae with parallel margins, leading to a pectinate aspect. Further peculiarities are the thin-chartaceous texture of the pinnae and the glabrous or one-ciliate sporangia. Terpsichore contacta is most similar to T. laxa ( Presl, 1825: 23) Smith (1993: 487) but the latter has linear-deltate pinnae and abundantly ciliate sporangia. This is an epiphyte in the wet montain Yungas forests, from 1500 m to 2300 m in Peru and Bolivia.