In Flora Mesoamerica, Moran consider these plants to be densely tomentose individuals of H. bogotensis. Schwartsburd argues that H. bogotensis is in fact endemic to the eastern Cordillera of Colombia, and has applied the name H. flexuosa. In Costa Rica, these plants re commonly collected at sites along the Pan-American Highway in the Cordillera Talamanca.
Collection Data (M. Sundue & W. Testo 4780)
Classification & Common Names
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- Family: Dennstaedtiaceae
- Genus: Hypolepis Bernh.
- Species: Hypolepis flexuosa Sodiro
- Var./Subsp.:
- Common name(s):
General Collection Data
- Date: 4-I-2017
- Primary Collector & #: M. Sundue & W. Testo 4780
- Collection Party: UVM tropical plant systematics course
- Det. History: M. Sundue
- Habitat: Escallonia woodland
- Habit:
- Specimen Locations: VT
Additional Comments
Along the old oxcart road
Collection Location
- Location: Cerro de la Muerte – – Perez-Zeledon – San José – Costa Rica.
- Coordinates: 9.5531, -83.7639
- Elevation: ca. 3400 m
