This species is only known from a single population in Vermont, at a site where two other disjunct moonworts (Botrychium ascendens and Botrychium campestre) are found. This collection represents the first record of the taxon in the state.
Botrychium spathulatum
Collection data
Classification & Common Names
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- Family: Ophioglossaceae
- Genus: Botrychium Sw.
- Species: Botrychium spathulatum W.H. Wagner
Collection Data
- Collection Date: 01-06-2015
- Collection Number: s.n.
- Primary collector: M. Rosenthal
- Collected by: M Rosenthal, A.V. Gilman, W. Testo
- Determined by: D.R. Farrar, July 2015
- Habitat: Deciduous forest
- Habit: Terrestrial
- Specimen locations: IA, VT
Collection Location
- General location: Dorset
- Country: United States
- State or Province: Vermont
- Municipality: Bennington County
- Coordinates: ,
- Elevation: 700m
About the Author
wtesto
I am a postdoc at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. I am interested in fern and lycophyte diversity, especially in the American tropics.
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