Asplenium blepharodes D.C. Eaton
Descripción
Roots thin, fibrous, not proliferous; rhizomes short-creeping to suberect; rhizome scales black, lumina occluded at maturity, 2–3 X 0.2–0.3 mm, entire; fronds clumped, 12–35 cm long; stipes dark reddish brown, lustrous, mostly 2–6 cm X 0.6–1.5 mm, 1⁄5–1⁄4 of frond length, often curved at bases, glabrous, not winged; blades chartaceous, 1-pinnate, buds absent, blades not rooting at tips; rachises dark red-brown, lustrous, abaxially with scattered minute appressed hairs 0.1–0.2 mm long, adaxially with tan wings to 0.2 mm wide; pinnae (10–)15–25 pairs, mostly opposite or subopposite, mostly 1–1.6 X 0.4–0.7 cm, sessile, proximal ones deflexed, mostly somewhat auriculate at the acroscopic bases, apices oblong, obtuse, finely serrate or biserrate on both sides and tips with rounded teeth, articulate with age; veins faintly visible in young fronds, 1-forked, tips evident adaxially; indument with scattered appressed tan hairs 0.1–0.2 mm abaxially; sori 6–9 per pinna, on both sides of midveins; indusia whitish, 2–3 X 0.5–0.8 mm, margins fringed with slender, whitish jointed hairs 0.2–1 mm long; spores reniform.A
Ejemplar revisado
BCS (Alexander et al. 2307, ARIZ, DS, MEXU, UC; Brandegee 660, NY, UC; Breedlove 43272, CAS; Gentry 4282, ARIZ, MO, UC; Gentry & Fox 11762, ARIZ, UC, US; Jones 24162, MO, NY; Thomas 7830, DS, ENCB).A
Distribución
México (Country) endemicB
Elevación
1000–1750 mA
Ecología y Hábitat
Bases of rocks and crevices of cliffs.A
Tipo de vegetación
Bosque de pino-encinoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaC
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaD
Discusión taxonómica
This differs from congeners in Mexico, and especially from its nearest ally, A. fibrillosum, in having rachises scantily pubescent (vs. distinctly fibrillose), forked veins (vs. simple), and indusia delicately ciliate (vs. deeply laciniate).A