Acrostichum danaeifolium Langsd. & Fisch.
Descripción
Rhizomes massive, erect, infrequently branched, shortcreeping; rhizome scales linear, to 2 cm long, dark brown, bases black, narrowed, margins pale; fronds 3.5 m long, clumped; stipes stout, slightly grooved, dark brown; pinnae usually 40–60 pairs, linear-oblong, chartaceous, margins slightly recurved and cartilaginous; proximal pinnae short-stalked, stalks less than 2 cm; costal areoles broad, never more than 3 times longer than wide, extracostal areoles divergent from costae at 60–85°; fronds either fertile or sterile (otherwise sterile fronds rarely fertile only in distal 1⁄4), the fertile pinnae resembling the sterile in size and shape, fertile fronds somewhat taller than sterile fronds; paraphyses with long, nearly horizontal tips, entire or few-lobed; 2n=60 (Jam).A
Forma de vida
TerrestreA
Ejemplar revisado
Camp (Chan 4258, MEXU). Chis (Breedlove 33175, DS, MEXU, NY). Col (Lott 2755, ENCB, MEXU, NY,UC). Gro (Velázquez 739, ENCB, FCME). Jal (McVaugh 21025, MEXU, MICH, NY). Mich (Díaz B. & Pérez de la R. 7502, IEB). Nay (González & Velázquez 866, MEXU). Oax (Conzatti 4418, US). QR (Ucan & Flora 984, XAL). SLP (Carranza & Díaz B. 4731, IEB, MEXU) Tab (Cowan 1946, CAS, MEXU). Tam (Rzedowski 24586a, ENCB, NY). Ver (Novelo 424, MEXU, MO, XAL). Yuc (Darwin & White 2198, MEXU, MO).A
Distribución
Caribe PresenteA: Antillas Mayores PresenteA; Antillas Menores PresenteA, Centroamérica PresenteA: Belice PresenteA; Costa Rica PresenteA; Guatemala PresenteA; Honduras PresenteA; Nicaragua PresenteA; Panamá PresenteA, México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA, Norteamérica al N de México PresenteA, Sudamérica PresenteA
Elevación
0 – 300 mA
Ecología y Hábitat
Brackish swamps, fresh-water swamps or by streams.A
Tipo de vegetación
Selva altaA
Categoría IUCN
Preocupación menor (LC)B
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC
Discusión taxonómica
Most collections of A. danaeifolium bear numerous, minute, erect hairs on the abaxial blade surfaces and can often be distinguished by this character. Acrostichum danaeifolium is much more common than A. aureum.
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