Mickelia hemiotis (Maxon) R.C.Moran, Labiak & Sundue
Descripción
Rhizomes creeping, to 10 mm diam.; rhizome scales dark brown, 5–10 X 1–3 mm, entire; fronds subdistant, 40–115 cm long; stipes 15–65 cm X 3–8 mm, those of sterile fronds ca. 1⁄2 the sterile frond length, those of fertile fronds ca. 2⁄3 the fertile frond length, sparsely scaly; sterile blades firmly chartaceous, ovate, 25–60 X 15–45 cm, pinnate, with conform terminal pinna, proliferous buds in axils of the distal pinnae; sterile pinnae (1–)2–3(–4) pairs, 20–30 X 6–15 cm, entire to undulate, proximal pinnae sessile to stalked to 10 mm, broadly elliptic or unequally rhomboid, at bases broadly cuneate acroscopically, cordate to rounded basiscopically, acute at tips; veins irregularly and finely areolate, areoles with mostly recurrent, branched, free veinlets; fertile blades once-pinnate, 20–35 cm long; sporangia covering the abaxial surfaces of fertile blades.A
Forma de vida
TerrestreA
Ejemplar revisado
(Related to the synonym Bolbitis hemiotis) Oax (Hernández G. 1746, CHAPA, MEXU). Ver (Cedillo T. 3314, MEXU; Lira 103, MEXU, XAL; Nee & Taylor 29956, MO, UC; Wendt 3847a, CHAPA, NY, UC).A
Elevación
100 – 1000 mA
Ecología y Hábitat
In wet lowland and lower montane forests.A
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC
Discusión taxonómica
(In relation to the synonym Bolbitis hemiotis) The pinnate fronds with a conform terminal pinna, 3–9 alternate pinnae with strongly asymmetric bases, included free veinlets, and axillary proliferous buds distinguish the species from all others in the New World.A