Adiantum ornithopodum C.Presl ex Kuhn, Linnaea

Kessler, Michael, Smith, Alan R. & Prado, Jefferson, 2017, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXVII. Pteridaceae, Phytotaxa 332 (3), pp. 201-250 : 236

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scientific name	Adiantum ornithopodum C.Presl ex Kuhn, Linnaea
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Adiantum ornithopodum C.Presl ex Kuhn, Linnaea View in CoL 36: 74. 1869.

Range: — Bolivia (SC) and Brazil.

Ecology: —Rare (2 collections known), terrestrial in lowland disturbed forests; 400 m.

Notes: —Most closely related to a group of southern Brazilian species with blades pedate at bases and with few or inconspicuous idioblasts: A. abscissum Schrad. , A. curvatum Kaulf. , and A. pentadactylon Langsd. & Fisch. Rhizomes short-creeping; rachises glabrous or with very few scattered articulate hairs; blades 2-or 3-forked, 3-or 4-pinnate proximally and 2-pinnate distally; pinnules 2–2.5 times longer than wide, 7–15 pairs per pinna, reduced toward pinna bases and apices, not articulate, stalked to 1 mm, pinnules glabrous on both surfaces, margins of sterile pinnules incised to lobate, irregularly serrate, indusia, oblong, glabrous.