Trichomanes ankersii is a member of Trichomanes subgen. Lacostea (Bosch) C. Chr. These are climbing plants with long-creeping rhizomes and leaves that are plastered against the host tree. The sori project outward away from the tree.
Trichomanes ankersii
Collection data (W. Testo, 1242 )
Classification & Common Names
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- Family: Hymenophyllaceae
- Genus: Trichomanes L.
- Species: Trichomanes ankersii C. Parker ex Hook. & Grev.
Collection Data
- Collection Date: 4-I-2017
- Collection Number: 1242
- Primary collector: W. Testo
- Collected by: University of Vermont Tropical Plant Systematics course
- Determined by: W. Testo (VT)
- Habitat: Tropical rainforest
- Habit: Primary hemiepiphyte
- Specimen locations: CR, VT
- Observations: Near Los Mogos, beneath Parka pendula
Collection Location
- General location: Osa Peninsula
- Country: Costa Rica
- State or Province: Puntarenas
- Coordinates: 8.75947222,-83.36413889
- 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!
Is this not Trichomanes tuerckheimii?