View source for Pleopeltis astrolepis

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|accepted_name=Pleopeltis astrolepis
|accepted_authority=(Liebmann) E. Fournier
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mexic. Pl.
|place=1: 87. 1872
|year=1872
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|common_names=Star-scaled fern
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Polypodium astrolepis
|authority=Liebmann
|rank=species
|publication_title=Kongel. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skr., Naturvidensk. Math. Afd., ser.
|publication_place=5, 1: 185. 1849
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Grammitis elongata
|authority=Swartz (not Polypodium elongatum Aiton)
|rank=species
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|name=Grammitis lanceolata
|authority=Schkuhr
|rank=species
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|name=Grammitis revoluta
|authority=Sprengel ex Willdenow
|rank=species
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|name=Pleopeltis revoluta
|authority=(Sprengel ex Willdenow) A. R. Smith
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Polypodiaceae;Pleopeltis;Pleopeltis astrolepis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polypodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pleopeltis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Pleopeltis astrolepis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="stem growth form or orientation;stem architecture;stem diameter"><b>Stems </b>long-creeping, branched, ca. 1 mm diam.;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="scale shape;scale architecture;scale pubescence;cell lumina coloration;hair coloration">scales round to ovatelanceolate, centrally clathrate with cell luminae clear, pubescent, hairs reddish-brown.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf architecture"><b>Leaves </b>to 20 cm, weakly hygroscopic.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="petiole shape;petiole architecture or pubescence"><b>Petiole </b>conspicuously flattened, sparsely scaly;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="scale arrangement;margin shape">scales rarely overlapping, margins fringed.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="blade arrangement or shape;blade architecture;blade width;margin architecture or shape;margin architecture or pubescence;margin architecture or pubescence"><b>Blade </b>linear-elliptic, simple, to 2 cm wide, margins entire, moderately scaly abaxially, sparsely scaly adaxially;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="scale coloration;scale shape;scale width;center coloration;center architecture">scales bicolored, mostly round, less than 0.5 mm wide, centers brown, clathrate, margins transparent, deeply fringed.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="margin coloration;margin shape;margin architecture;areole reproduction;areole quantity"><b>Venation </b>complexly anastomosing, fertile areoles with several included veinlets.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="sorus shape;sorus fusion;sorus arrangement;sorus position;sorus relief;soral scale fixation"><b>Sori </b>oval to oblong, discrete or often confluent, surficial to shallowly embossed, soral scales attached to receptacle.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="spore relief;spore some measurement;2n chromosome quantity"><b>Spores </b>shallowly and irregularly papillate to verrucose, ca. 58 µm. <b>2n</b> = 136.</span><!--

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|habitat=Epiphytic in swamps on pond apple (Annona glabra Linnaeus)
|elevation=0 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America
|discussion=<p>Pleopeltis astrolepis is a common species in tropical America, including the West Indies. The only known North American locality, in Broward County, Florida, was discovered in 1977, and (in 1992) the plants are in danger of extirpation from development.</p>
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name=Pleopeltis astrolepis
|authority=(Liebmann) E. Fournier
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Grammitis elongata;Grammitis lanceolata;Grammitis revoluta;Pleopeltis revoluta
|basionyms=Polypodium astrolepis
|family=Polypodiaceae
|habitat=Epiphytic in swamps on pond apple (Annona glabra Linnaeus)
|elevation=0 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America
|reference=None
|publication title=Mexic. Pl.
|publication year=1872
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Pleopeltis
|species=Pleopeltis astrolepis
|2n chromosome quantity=136
|areole quantity=several
|areole reproduction=fertile
|blade architecture=simple
|blade arrangement or shape=linear-elliptic
|blade width=0cm;2cm
|cell lumina coloration=clear
|center architecture=clathrate
|center coloration=brown
|hair coloration=reddish-brown
|leaf architecture=hygroscopic
|margin architecture=anastomosing
|margin architecture or pubescence=scaly;scaly
|margin architecture or shape=entire
|margin coloration=transparent
|margin shape=fringed;fringed
|petiole architecture or pubescence=scaly
|petiole shape=flattened
|scale architecture=clathrate
|scale arrangement=overlapping
|scale coloration=bicolored
|scale pubescence=pubescent
|scale shape=round;round;ovatelanceolate
|scale width=0mm;0.5mm
|soral scale fixation=attached
|sorus arrangement=confluent
|sorus fusion=discrete
|sorus position=surficial
|sorus relief=embossed
|sorus shape=oval;oblong
|spore relief=irregularly papillate;verrucose
|spore some measurement=58
|stem architecture=branched
|stem diameter=1
|stem growth form or orientation=long-creeping
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