The minute low canopy epiphyte is relatively common in the lowland forests around the La Selva Biologica Field Station.
Didymoglossum ovale
Collection data (M. Sundue, 3429 )
Classification & Common Names
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- Family: Hymenophyllaceae
- Genus: Didymoglossum Desv.
- Species: Didymoglossum ovale E. Fourn.
Collection Data
- Collection Date: 18-I-2013
- Collection Number: 3429
- Primary collector: M. Sundue
- Collected by: M. Sundue along with the OTS tropical ferns and lycophytes course
- Determined by: M. Sundue
- Habitat: Primary Forest
- Habit: Epiphyte
- Specimen location: VT
Collection Location
- General location: La Selva Biological Field Station
- Country: Costa Rica
- State or Province: Heredia
- Coordinates: 10.422,-84.015
- Elevation: 100 m
About the Author
Michael Sundue
My field work is centered in Colombia, and Papua New Guinea. I am based at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E). If you have any ferns that you want identified, please send them to me!
Very nice. This is the smallest of the filmy ferns at La Selva, I believe.