Hypolepis repens (L.) C.Presl
Descripción
Rhizomes long-creeping, 5–10 mm diam., with brown hairs; fronds 2–4 m long, distant; stipes ca. 1⁄2 the frond length, dark at bases, stramineous to brown adaxially, with short, straight, stramineous spines and many spreading hairs 1–2 mm long (with the spines onto the tertiary axes); blades deltate to long-deltate, 3–4-pinnate-pinnatifid, to 1.5 m wide; pinnae deltate, equilateral, stalked; segments pinnatifid, lobes oblong, rounded, slightly ascending; laminae lustrous beneath, firm to coriaceous, jointed hairs adaxially sparse on axes and major veins, jointed hairs abaxially common on laminae; veins ending at blade margins, with slender tips, lighter than the laminae; sori submarginal, indusia well developed, subentire or irregularly toothed scarious flaps, oblong, 0.8–1 X 0.1–0.3 mm, 1 per lobe; 2n=104 (CR), 208 (Fla).A
Forma de vida
TerrestreA
Ejemplar revisado
Chis (Ghiesbreght 230, NY; Purpus 7228, NY). Gro (Martínez S. 4234, ARIZ, XAL). Hgo (Herrera & Riba 2228, MEXU; Sánchez M. 648, MEX, US). Oax (Mickel 4743, 7241, NY). Pue (Rzedowski 32435, CAS, IEB, MEXU). Ver (Copeland herb. 74, NY; Ventura A. 3674, ENCB, MEXU, XAL).A
Elevación
450 – 1800 mA
Ecología y Hábitat
Margins of wet forests, roadsides and clearings at mid-elevation on Atlantic slope.A
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC
Discusión taxonómica
This is the most common and widespread species of the genus in America. For comparison with taxa having spiny axes, see discussion under H. blepharochlaena and H. microchlaena.A