Dennstaedtia auriculata Navarrete & B.Øllg.
Descripción
Rhizomes short-creeping, unbranched, ascending, ca. 3 cm diam., glabrous; fronds 1.5–3 m long, to 1.5 cm distant; stipes ca. 1⁄2 the frond length, erect to scandent, each with one bud at base; blades arching or scandent, ovate-lanceolate, bipinnate to subtripinnate; proximal pinnae usually subsessile, with basal pinnules reduced and reflexed; axes of penultimate segments without perpendicular herbaceous wings adaxially, or with them, but wing on basiscopic side not decurrent onto axis of next order; sterile vein tips clavate to punctate, ending well short of glabrous margins; blade axes glabrate to usually pubescent abaxially, hairs brownish, subappressed, ascending, somewhat curled; laminar tissue glabrous, dark green, dull, thick-herbaceous; fertile segments lobate; indusia purse-shaped to cup-shaped.A
Forma de vida
TerrestreA
Ejemplar revisado
Chis (Breedlove 33693, NY, TEX, 56477, CAS; Münch 60, DS, US).A
Elevación
300 – 1200 mA
Tipo de vegetación
Bosque de neblina/mesófilo, Selva altaA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC
Discusión taxonómica
Dennstaedtia auriculata closely resembles D. arborescens (Willd.) Ekman ex Maxon of the West Indies except the former has lobate fertile segments, lacks laminar buds, and has reflexed basal pinnules, whereas the latter has entire fertile segments, laminar buds, and basal pinnules patent to ascending.A