Pteris altissima Poir.
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.332.3.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13723773 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038F87DD-FFF5-7936-FF49-FC02FBADFB7A |
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Felipe |
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Pteris altissima Poir. |
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Pteris altissima Poir. View in CoL in Lam., Encycl. 5: 722. 1804.
Range: — Mexico, Mesoamerica, Greater and Lesser Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia (BE, CO, LP, SC), Paraguay, and Brazil.
Ecology: —Common; terrestrial in wet forests, lowland to submontane forests; 250–1300 m.
Notes: —Blades slightly pedate, 2-pinnate-pinnatifid; proximal pinnae pedicellate, the pedicels ca. 0.5 cm long, not winged; venation areolate, with 2 or 3(–4) areoles adjoining a costa between two adjacent costules; awns present on the costae adaxially. A somewhat similar, very large species, sometimes confused with P. altissima , is P. gigantea Willd. , known from the Lesser Antilles, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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