Danaea cuspidata Liebm.
Descripción
Rhizomes short-creeping, green, 7–13 mm diam.; rhizome scales dark; fronds to 120 cm tall; stipes 18–36 cm long, ca. 1⁄2 or slightly less the frond length, green-brown, with (0–)2–4 swollen nodes, with dense (especially at nodes) to remote, brown, appressed scales; blades 75–165 X 20–32 cm; pinnae 7–13 pairs, sterile pinnae 9–12(–16) X 1.5–2 cm, narrowly elliptic, bases obliquely cuneate or truncate, apices strongly serrulate, longacuminate; laminae dark green, with minute scales on veins and trichomidia between veins; veins free, simple or 1-forked; fertile pinnae similar in shape to those of the sterile fronds, but narrower, 4.5–6 X 0.5–0.7 cm; synangia 56–62 per pinna.A
Forma de vida
TerrestreA
Ejemplar revisado
Chis (Münch 159, DS, P, US). Oax (Martínez C. 399, UC, US; Mickel 962, ENCB, MEXU, MICH, NY, 1552, ENCB, NY, 5653, 5888, 6456, NY, UC; Romero et al. 1007, MEXU). Ver (Lira 162, MEXU, UAMIZ, XAL).A
Elevación
250 – 1650 mA
Ecología y Hábitat
Near rivers on Atlantic slope.A
Tipo de vegetación
Bosque de neblina/mesófilo, Selva altaA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC
Discusión taxonómica
Danaea cuspidata is distinguished by its slender, strongly serrulate pinnae. It is closely allied with or perhaps identical to D. moritziana C. Presl of South America and possibly the West Indies; the latter is the older name.A