Pleopeltis fayorum is restricted to the western side of the Andes in Ecuador and Colombia. It can be distinguished from other speices of Pleopeltis by the distinctly bicolorous rhizome scales and the stellate-divided adaxial laminar scales.
Pleopeltis fayorum
Collection data
Classification & Common Names
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- Family: Polypodiaceae
- Genus: Pleopeltis Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
- Species: Pleopeltis fayorum R. C. Moran
Collection Data
- Collection Date: 16-III-2011
- Collection Number: 2692
- Primary collector: M. Sundue
- Collected by: M. Sundue & M. McHenry
- Determined by: M. Sundue
- Habitat: Cloud forest
- Habit: Epiphyte
- Specimen locations: QCA, VT
Collection Location
- General location: Old Road from Nanegalito to Tandayapa
- Country: Ecuador
- State or Province: Pichincha
- Coordinates: ,
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!
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