What is this fern?
I cant figure out this fern either. Here are some detailed pics. It started out as a small fern but the rhizome seems to have built up over 10 years or more to be a soft 10" tall mound of soft scales? At...
Polybotrya lechleriana
Collection data (M. Sundue, 5170 )
Classification & Common Names
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- Family: Dryopteridaceae
- Genus: Polybotrya Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
- Species: Polybotrya lechleriana Mett.
Collection Data
- Collection Date: 6-II-2022
- Collection Number: 5170
- Primary collector: M. Sundue
- Collected by: Alejandra Vasco, Weston Testo, Sarah Morris, Susana Vega, Jonatan Castro, Verónica Bedoya, Alejandro Marín, Arcangel Gómez
- Determined by: M. Sundue
- Habits: Climber, Terrestrial
- Specimen locations: BRIT, F, JAUM, VT
- Observations: Young plants seen terrestrial, older plants seen climbing trees. Rhizomes of older plants 1-2 cm diam. Leaves to 1 m long, 3-pinnate-pinnatifid, pale green, held horizontal to ground, dimorphic. Fertile leaves essentially without lamina, the axes entirely sporangiate. Locally abundant.
Collection Location
- General location: Parque Nacional Natural Tatamá
- Country: Colombia
- State or Province: Risaralda
- Municipality: Pueblo Rico
- Coordinates: 5.250756,-76.106451
- Elevation: 2173 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!
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