Elaphoglossum costaricense
Elaphoglossum costaricense is unique in having capitate glandular hairs that contain secondary compounds that smell like Citrus.
Vandenboschia rupestris
Collection data (N. P. Smith, 264 )
Classification & Common Names
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- Family: Hymenophyllaceae
- Genus: Vandenboschia Copel.
- Species: Vandenboschia rupestris (Raddi) Ebihara & K. Iwats.
Collection Data
- Collection Date: 01-II-2011
- Collection Number: 264
- Primary collector: N. P. Smith
- Determined by: Paulo Labiak, 2011 (from photo)
- Habitat: Primary Forest
- Habit: Lithophyte
- Observations: Fertile.
Collection Location
- General location: Reserva Volta Velha
- Country: Brazil
- State or Province: Santa Catarina
- Municipality: Itapoá
- Coordinates: -26.40230556,-49.34391667
About the Author
Nathan Smith
I am an amateur botanist working on the fern and lycophyte florulas of Santa Catarina Island and the Furnas River Reserve, in southern Brazil.
Can you also find this growing on trees? Could it be a hemiepiphyte or hemilithophyte?
Maybe. I”ve only found it once. I’ll try to find it again.