Crepidomanes minutum

by Michael Sundue | Jul 10, 2015 | Ferns, New Collections | 0 comments

Crepidomanes minutum is widely distributed in the Old World tropics. It is morphologically variable, and part a species complex involving polyploidy and hybridization. Nitta et al. expose how complicated the problem is in their paper using chromosome counts and flow cytometry, combined with chloroplast and nuclear markers.

Nitta, Joel H., Atsushi Ebihara, and Motomi Ito. “Reticulate evolution in the Crepidomanes minutum species complex (Hymenophyllaceae).” American Journal of Botany 98.11 (2011): 1782-1800.

Collection data

Classification & Common Names

Class: Polypodiopsida
Family: Hymenophyllaceae
Genus: Crepidomanes C. Presl
Species: Crepidomanes minutum (Blume) K. Iwats.

Collection Data

Collection Date: 14-II-2013
Collection Number: 1683
Primary collector: S. A. James & M. Sundue
Collected by: Shelley James, Michael Sundue, Allen Allison, Si He, Dubi Damas, Bulisa Iova, Oliver Tallowin
Determined by: M. Sundue
Habitat: Secondary Forest
Habit: Epiphyte
Specimen locations: BISH, LAE, VT

Collection Location

General location: Sibium Mtns.
Country: Papua New Guinea
State or Province: Northern Province
Coordinates: ,
Elevation: 944 m

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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!