Pleopeltis lepidopteris
Collection data
Classification & Common Names
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- Family: Polypodiaceae
- Genus: Pleopeltis Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
- Species: Pleopeltis lepidopteris (Langsd. & Fisch.) de la Sota
Collection Data
- Collection Date: 06-XI-2011
- Primary collector: N. P. Smith
- Habitat: Sand dunes
- Habit: Terrestrial
- Specimen location: FLOR
Collection Location
- General location: Parque Municipal das Dunas da Lagoa da Conceição
- Country: Brazil
- State or Province: Santa Catarina
- Municipality: Florianópolis
- Coordinates: ,
- Elevation: 7 m
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.
What an interesting habitat to find Pleopeltis. I am more used to seeing it as an epiphyte in humid forests.
Yes, it is a very interesting plant!Possibly P. lepidopteris (Langsd. & Fisch.) de la Sota. It’s also found at the coastal sand plains (Restingas) around Rio de Janeiro. Well there is a group of species very similar, but my best shot by those pictures and the habitat is lepdopteris. I just found a paper (http://rodriguesia.jbrj.gov.br/rodrig60_4/070-08.pdf) about development of this species. It’s in portuguese but english speakers can read the figures. Seriously it has bilingual legends!
Thanks! Based on the specimens at FLOR it looks like P. lepidopteris.