Phlebodium (R.Br.) J.Sm.
Descripción
Rhizomes creeping, branched, glaucous; rhizome scales concolorous, brown to golden, nonclathrate, peltately attached, surfaces glabrous, margins ciliate; fronds monomorphic, articulate; stipes brown to stramineous, channelled adaxially; blades deeply pinnatifid to pinnatisect with rounded sinuses, broadly oblong to subdeltate; pinnae broad, entire, chartaceous to coriaceous, usually glabrous, often glaucous; veins netted, row of costal areoles without free included veins, then one to several rows of additional areoles, these with or without free included veins; sori round, exindusiate, within areole at the union of merging, included veins, in 1 to 7 rows between costa and segment margin, paraphyses absent; sporangia glabrous; spores bilateral, coarsely tuberculate; x=37.A
Forma de vida
o Epipétrica. EpífitaA
Distribución
México (país) Nativo y no endémicoA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC
Discusión taxonómica
Phlebodium, as commonly construed, is a segregate of Polypodium s.l. It occurs in the New World tropics and subtropics and comprises about four species. The double included veins running to the sorus distinguish this small genus from species of Polypodium, which have free veins or a single included vein, if the veins are netted.A