Lonchitis L.
Descripción
Rhizomes creeping, fleshy, stout, with pale hairs; fronds medium to large, monomorphic; stipes stout, fleshy, hairy, green, terete abaxially, ridged adaxially; blades ovate, bipinnatepinnatifid, ridges continuous with those of costae; laminae membranaceous, herbaceous, with numerous septate hairs (in ours) or glabrous; veins free (in ours) to casually anastomosing; sori marginal on sides of segments, 2 per segment, lacking paraphyses; indusia submarginal from inner edge of marginal flange, broad, reflexed over sorus; spores tetrahedral-globose; x=50.A
Forma de vida
TerrestreA
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC
Discusión taxonómica
Lonchitis has two species, one in Africa and one in America. The Amercian one is widespread in wet forests at middle elevations. The species is sometimes placed in Anisosorus due to confusion with typification of Lonchitis and Blotiella (Lellinger, 1977). Lonchitis is distinct in its hairy rhizomes, stipes, and blades, and the membranous blades with free veins.A