Notholaena ochracea (Hook.) Yatsk. & Arbeláez
Descripción
Rhizomes compact, horizontal to ascending, 3–4 mm diam.; rhizome scales lanceolate, concolorous, tan, bicolorous with age, entire, 4–5 mm long; fronds to 36 cm long, clumped; stipes 1⁄9–1⁄3 the length of the fronds, terete, red-brown, lustrous, with scattered to sparse, tan, lanceolate scales, varying to hairs on adaxial rachial surfaces; blades lanceolate to elliptic, 4–8.5 cm wide, narrowed at bases, pinnate-pinnatifid to bipinnate; pinnae 7–14 pairs, linear-lanceolate; adaxial surfaces with scattered, white, jointed hairs ca. 1 mm long, more abundant along blade margins; abaxial surfaces with yellow-orange farina; sori marginal; blade margins recurved and differentiated, entire; sporangia 32-spored; spores light to dark brown.A
Forma de vida
Epipétrica, TerrestreB
Ejemplar revisado
(Related to the synonym Cheilanthes aurantiaca) Dgo (Sánchez 739, MEXU). Gro (Matuda 37306, MEXU). Hgo (Matuda 32549, MEXU). Jal (McVaugh 20111, MICH). Méx (Hinton 918, NY, 4350, MEXU). Mich (González Medrano 17024, MEXU). Mor (Pringle 10265, NY). Nay (Breedlove 44622, CAS, MEXU). Oax (de Avila 359, MEXU). Sin (Breedlove 62991, CAS).A
Distribución
México (país) EndémicoA
Elevación
700 – 2200 mA
Ecología y Hábitat
On and among rocks.A
Tipo de vegetación
Bosque de encino, Bosque de pino-encinoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaC
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaD
Discusión taxonómica
(In relation to the synonym) Cheilanthes aurantiaca is distinct by the lanceolate to elliptic, pinnate-pinnatifid to bipinnate blade and the gold farina on the abaxial surfaces of the pinnae.A