Neurodium
4: 201. 1850.
Taxon | Illustrator ⠉ | |
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Microgramma heterophylla Campyloneurum phyllitidis Neurodium lanceolatum | John Myers John Myers John Myers |
Plants epiphytic. Stems short-creeping, branched, 2–4 mm diam., not whitish pruinose; scales bicolored, lanceolate, somewhat clathrate, margins dentate. Leaves essentially monomorphic, tufted, narrowed toward apex, to 45 cm. Petiole articulate to stem, greenish, round in cross-section, grooved at base. Blade linear to lanceolate-elliptic, simple, not glaucous, glabrous, margins entire. Veins obscure, in irregular areoles that generally longer than wide and parallel to costa, included veinlets 1–2, simple or forked, free. Sori in nearly continuous, nearly marginal band (coenosorus) in distal 1/2 of blade, sometimes also with 1–3 separate oblong to circular sori proximally; indument filamentous. Spores minutely tuberculate. x = 37.
Distribution
Tropical, North America, Mexico, West Indies, Central America
Discussion
Species 1 (1 in the flora).
Selected References
None.