Metaxya rostrata
Collection data
Classification & Common Names
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- Family: Metaxyaceae
- Genus: Metaxya C. Presl
- Species: Metaxya rostrata (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) C. Presl
Collection Data
- Collection Date: 4-I-2017
- Collection Number: 1244
- Primary collector: W. Testo
- Collected by: University of Vermont Tropical Plant Systematics course
- Determined by: W. Testo (VT)
- Habit: Terrestrial
- Specimen locations: CR, VT
Collection Location
- General location: Osa Peninsula
- Country: Costa Rica
- State or Province: Puntarenas
- Coordinates: ,
- Elevation: 200 m
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!
Are you sure it is not M. elongata Tuomisto & Cardenas? A picture of the apex of the pinnae could help distinguishing between them.
Hi Gabriela –
Thanks for the comment. You are right – this is definitely M. elongata. I was stuck in the old taxonomic scheme for the group. I’ll update this!
Wes