Microgramma persicariifolia (Schrad.) C.Presl, Tent. Pterid.

Smith, Alan R., Kessler, Michael, León, Blanca, Almeida, Thaís Elias, Jiménez-Pérez, Iván & Lehnert, Marcus, 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XL. Polypodiaceae, Phytotaxa 354 (1), pp. 448-450 : 448-450

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.354.1.1
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scientific name	Microgramma persicariifolia (Schrad.) C.Presl, Tent. Pterid.
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Microgramma persicariifolia (Schrad.) C.Presl, Tent. Pterid. View in CoL 214. 1836.

= Polypodium persicariifolium Schrad., Gött. Gel. Anz. 1824: 867 View in CoL . 1824.

Range: — Panama and Trinidad across the Amazon basin to Bolivia (BE, CO, LP, PA, SC), Brazil, and Paraguay.

Ecology: —Common; epiphytic in humid forests, often along forest edges; to 100–500(1000) m.

Notes: —This species varies in soral shape, ranging from oblong to linear. It is similar to M. thurnii , from which it can be distinguished by the oblong to linear sori ( vs. round) and blade apex acute to acuminate ( vs. caudate to rarely acuminate).