Gymnocarpium oyamense

Posted by Michael Sundue | Ferns, New Collections | 3

Collection Data (M. Sundue 3703)

Classification & Common Names

Class: Polypodiopsida
Family: Cystopteridaceae
Genus: Gymnocarpium Newm.
Species: Gymnocarpium oyamense (Bak.) Ching
Var./Subsp.:
Common name(s):

General Collection Data

Date: 2-VIII-2014
Primary Collector & #: M. Sundue 3703
Collection Party: M. Sundue M. Lehnert D. N. Karger D. Quandt S. Noben K. Mar B.-C. Ho Y. Mei L. Lewis
Det. History: M. Sundue
Habitat: Montane forest
Habit: Terrestrial
Specimen Locations: LAE, VT

Additional Comments

Collection Location

Location: Mt. Wilhelm – – – Chimbu – Papua New Guinea.
Coordinates: 5° 49' 19.4874"S, 145° 8' 25.9116"E
Elevation: 2800 m

About The Author

Michael Sundue

I am particularly interested in macroevolutionary patterns and characters that diagnose large clades of ferns and lycophytes. My field work is centered in Mexico, Colombia, and Papua New Guinea. I am based in the Pringle Herbarium (VT) at the University of Vermont. If you have any ferns that you want identified, please send them to me!

3 Comments

Fernando Matos on May 4, 2015 at 10:42 pm

Wow! So this is what the subtropical Gymnocarpium looks like! Very nice!!! I don’t know this genus very well, but this species looks very unusual in its laminar cutting and elongated sori. The leaf texture and rhizome habit look more familiar though. Did you notice if it had a swollen node at the junction of basal pinnae with rachis?
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- Michael Sundue on May 5, 2015 at 1:05 am
  
  Yes it does!
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carl on May 7, 2015 at 1:37 pm

Sweet! And nice shots!
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