Melpomene caput-gorgonis Lehnert, Amer. Fern J.
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Melpomene caput-gorgonis Lehnert, Amer. Fern J. |
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Melpomene caput-gorgonis Lehnert, Amer. Fern J. View in CoL 98(4): 219(–222), f. 2, 7B. 2009.
Range: —Southern Peru (rare) and Bolivia (LP).
Ecology: —Uncommon or locally common; epiphytic or rarely epilithic in wet montane forests, elfin forests; 2500–3200.
Notes: —Distinguished from M. flabelliformis and M. moniliformis and its varieties by the broad rhizome scales with numerous clustered, branched, clavate hairs at the scale tips ( vs. apical glands inserted on cell in all other Melpomene species). Often growing with M. paradoxa .
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