Serpocaulon levigatum
Collection data
Classification & Common Names
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- Family: Polypodiaceae
- Genus: Serpocaulon A. R. Sm.
- Species: Serpocaulon levigatum (Cav.) A.R. Sm.
Collection Data
- Collection Date: 14-07-2016
- Primary collector: M. Sundue
- Collected by: W.L. Testo, M. Sundue, A. Vasco, N. Lopez
- Habitat: Montane forest
- Habit: Terrestrial
- Specimen locations: AAU, JAUM, VT
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!
This guy is a far cry from my notion of what a fern “should” look like–lacking the hallmark fronds that characterize, for me, the archetypal fern.
Perhaps it’s time for me to revisit my preconceived notion of how a fern ought to appear.
Great comment Alan! That is one of the reasons we decided to build this site.
Letting ferns be ferns, free of judgment or the imposition of uninformed stereotypes regarding static aesthetic norms.