Elaphoglossum tectum (Willd.) T.Moore
Descripción
Rhizomes compact, short- to moderately creeping, 2–3 mm diam.; rhizome scales linear- lanceolate, dark reddish black, sclerotic, lustrous, ca. 5 mm long, with a few pale, weak hairteeth; fronds clumped to 3 mm apart, 60–80 X 1.7–2.6 cm; phyllopodia indistinct; stipes 1⁄3–1⁄2 the frond length, with scales appressed, peltate, round with dark centers and short hairteeth; blades linear-elliptic, chartaceous, bases narrowly cuneate, apices long-acuminate; veins obscure, free, simple or onceforked, mostly 0.7–1 mm apart, at ca. 80° angle to costa; hydathodes absent; blade scales on adaxial surfaces white, appressed, round, peltate, toothed, deciduous with age, scales on the abaxial surfaces reduced to stellate hairs; fertile fronds about as long as the sterile or slightly longer, but with narrower blades and longer stipes more than 1⁄2 the frond length, scales round, peltate on abaxial costae but absent among the sporangia; 2n =164 (Jam).A
Forma de vida
o epipétrica, menos común epífita. TerrestreA
Ejemplar revisado
Chis (Breedlove 23172, DS; Lloyd 4064, ENCB p.p.). Oax (Mickel 5086b, 5096, NY). Ver (Bourgeau 2538, K, 3065, NY; Müller 42, NY; Purpus 2350, 6187, US; Smith 2017, UC).
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Elevación
1350 – 1550 mA
Tipo de vegetación
Bosque de neblina/mesófiloA
Categoría IUCN
No incluidaB
Categoría NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010
No incluidaC
Discusión taxonómica
This species is readily distinguished by the round, peltate scales on the stipes and adaxial blade surfaces and stellate hairs on the abaxial blade surfaces.A