Meniscium serratum Cav., Descr. Pl. (Cavanilles)

Smith, Alan R. & Kessler, Michael, 2017, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXX. Thelypteridaceae, Phytotaxa 331 (1), pp. 1-34 : 29

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scientific name

Meniscium serratum Cav., Descr. Pl. (Cavanilles)
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Meniscium serratum Cav., Descr. Pl. (Cavanilles) View in CoL 548. 1803.

= Thelypteris serrata (Cav.) Alston, Kew Bull. 1932: 309 View in CoL . 1932.

Range: —Florida; Antilles; Mexico to Bolivia (BE, CO, LP, PA, SC), eastern Brazil, Paraguay, and northern Argentina.

Ecology: —Common; terrestrial and aquatic in marshes, swamps, roadside ditches, and along streams, sometimes in full sun; 200–900(1300) m.

Notes: —Readily recognized by the serrate pinnae; most other Bolivian species of the genus have entire to crenulate or undulate pinna margins. Meniscium consobrinum , which see, also has serrate pinnae, but differs by distal pinnae not or only slightly reduced ( vs. greatly reduced) and generally broader and fewer pinnae.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Polypodiopsida

Order

Polypodiales

Family

Thelypteridaceae

Genus

Meniscium

Loc

Meniscium serratum Cav., Descr. Pl. (Cavanilles)

Smith, Alan R. & Kessler, Michael 2017
2017
Loc

Thelypteris serrata (Cav.)

Alston 1932: 309
1932
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