Notholaena weatherbiana R.M.Tryon
Descripción
Rhizomes compact, horizontal, ca. 2 mm diam.; rhizome scales linear-lanceolate, dark reddish brown to black, younger ones with white edges, or all white, margins with sparse ephemeral teeth; fronds 6–20 cm long, clumped; stipes 1⁄3–1⁄2 the frond length, castaneous, terete or flattened adaxially, lanose with curly hairs and narrow whitish scales; blades oblong, 1.5–3.3 cm wide, only slightly narrowed proximally, bipinnate to bipinnatepinnatifid, subcoriaceous; pinnae 5–12 or more pairs, equilateral; adaxial surfaces lanose with curly white hairs; abaxial surfaces with scales on rachises and costae, segments with many curly white hairs and white to cream-colored farina; laminar margins only slightly curved; spores tan to black.A
Ejemplar revisado
Chih (Knobloch 535, DS, 551, MSC, UC; Pray 3184, LAM).A
Distribución
México (país) EndémicoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC
Discusión taxonómica
This species is distinct by its abundant curly hairs mixed with farina on the blades and mixed with narrow whitish scales on the stipes.A