Asplenium pringlei Davenp.
Descripción
Roots thin, wiry, not proliferous; rhizomes suberect to erect; rhizome scales dark brown to black, clathrate, ca. 3–4 X 0.3–0.4 mm, entire; fronds clumped, mostly 10–15 cm long; stipes dark brown to black, lustrous, 1.5–2.5 cm X 0.7–1 mm, ca. 1⁄10 of frond length, often curved at bases, sparsely scaly, adaxially with wings ca. 0.1 mm wide; blades chartaceous, mostly 8–13 X 1–1.5 cm, pinnate to pinnate-pinnatifid, linear, lacking buds, rachises black, lustrous, curved, nearly glabrous, adaxially with brownish wings 0.2 mm wide; pinnae oblong, 20–34 pairs, proximal and sometimes middle ones slightly deflexed, 4–5 X 1.5–3 mm, subsessile, rachis color not running onto the pinna stalks, slightly auriculate acroscopically, apices obtuse, incised 1⁄4–1⁄2 the way to the costae; veins obscure, tips evident adaxially; indument abaxially of scattered appressed, whitish to tan clavate hairs 0.1–0.2 mm long; sori 1–4 pairs per pinna, on both sides of midveins, submarginal on small lobes, 1 sorus per lobe; indusia 0.7–1.2 X 0.7–1.2 mm, margins entire, often incurved; spores reniform.A
Forma de vida
EpipetricA
Ejemplar revisado
Chih (Pringle s.n., in 1887, MEXU). Col (Avelar Muñoz 16923, UC; Vasquez V. 1565, UC). Jal (Pringle 2769, MO, UC, 4089, MEXU, s.n., MEXU). Nay (Mexia 857, CAS, UC, US).
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Distribución
México (Country) endemicB
Elevación
1200–2300 mA
Ecología y Hábitat
On wet cliffs and mossy ledgesA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaC
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaD
Discusión taxonómica
This species is distinguished by its curved rachises, incised pinnae, and submarginal sori with large, entire indusia. It is closely related to A. sanchezii, A. fibrillosum, and A. blepharodes.A