This endemic species grows among rocks in open places along the Campos Rupestris in central Brazil.
Pellaea cymbiformis – habit
Pellaea cymbiformis
Collection data
Classification & Common Names
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- Family: Pteridaceae
- Genus: Pellaea Link
- Species: Pellaea cymbiformis J. Prado
Collection Data
- Collection Date: 6-I-2002
- Collection Number: 1404
- Primary collector: J. Prado
- Collected by: J. Prado & T. Barbara-Blubaugh
- Habitat: Campos rupestres
- Habit: Terrestrial
- Specimen location: SP
Collection Location
- General location: Road between Diamantina-Curvelo
- Country: Brazil
- Municipality: Gouveia
- Coordinates: ,
- Elevation: ca. 1500 m
About the Author
Jefferson Prado
I am a Brazilian pteridologist and I work on phylogeny, nomenclature, taxonomy, and geographical distribution of Pteridaceae and Dryopteridaceae; pteridoflora in Brazil, Bolivia, and China.
What a beauty! I didn’t know this species. It is always amazing to see a fern growing in this kind of environment…