Asplenium breedlovei A.R. Sm.
Descripción
Roots fibrous, not proliferous; rhizomes short-creeping; rhizome scales dark brown to blackish, clathrate, 1–3 X 0.2–0.3 mm; fronds few, 1–3 per plant, to ca. 50 cm long; stipes atropurpureous or brown, dull, mostly 10–25 cm X ca. 2 mm, 1⁄3–1⁄2 the frond length, glabrous, without adaxial wings; blades chartaceous, deltate, to 35 X 15 cm, nearly 4-pinnate proximally, gradually tapering toward apices, buds absent, blades not rooting at tips; rachises darkened proximally, greenish distally, glabrous, not winged; pinnae to 8–12 pairs, ascending, to 10 X 3 cm, not articulate, stalked to 3 mm, pinnules pinnate-pinnatifid, cuneiform, mostly 2–5-lobed, ultimate segments to 1.5mm wide, acute or subacute at tips; veins 2–3-forked in the ultimate segments, visible on both sides, terminating in linear hydathodes near the margins; indument abaxially of scattered, tan appressed clavate hairs ca. 0.1 mm long; sori 1–2 per ultimate segment; indusia whitish to tan, 1.5–3 X 0.3–0.6 mm, margins entire or slightly erose; spores globose (Adams in Davidse et al., 1995).A
Forma de vida
TerrestreA
Elevación
1500–1800 mA
Tipo de vegetación
Bosque de neblina/mesófiloA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaC
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaD
Discusión taxonómica
The most similar Mexican species are A. solmsii and A. insolitum, from which A. breedlovei differs in having creeping rhizomes. The nearest affinities of A. breedlovei are obscure; it seems to be a rather isolated species, and is unusual in the genus because of the creeping rhizomes. It does not appear closely related to sect. Hymenasplenium, species of which regularly have creeping rhizomes.A