Lomaridium C.Presl
Descripción
Rhizomes long-creeping, climbing trees or ascending to erect, non-stoloniferous, stout, clothed with mostly bicolorous, long-lanceolate, denticulate or entire (rare) scales; fronds dimorphic; stipes stout, long, stramineous, brown to dark brown, proximally with scales like those of rhizomes, glabrous or minutely but densely papillose; blades concolorous or bicolorous, the adaxial side dark green, abaxially silver-green, lanceolate or ovate-deltate, deeply pinnatisect or pinnate in the proximal half, usually with many pairs of greatly reduced, auriculate or vestigial pinnae proximally, distally pinnatifid, sometimes with an entire, acuminate blade tip; rachises glabrous or with scattered minute hairs, often atropurpureus; buds absent; aerophores absent; pinnae adnate, oblong-acute to linear-attenuate or narrowly triangular, sometimes falcate, margins entire, slightly revolute; veins free, 1-furcate proximally, terminating near margins in enlarged vein tips adaxially; sori linear, indusia linear, entire to subentire; x = 29, 32.
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Forma de vida
Hemiepifita, EpífitaA
Tipo de vegetación
Bosque de neblina/mesófilo, Selva altaB
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaC
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaD
Discusión taxonómica
Lomaridium is easily distinguished from other Blechnaceae by the denticulate rhizome scales, glabrous leaves, and plants that climb by rhizomes.A