Metaxya rostrata

Posted by Michael Sundue | Ferns | 2

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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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Gabriela Zuquim on March 2, 2017 at 7:28 am

Are you sure it is not M. elongata Tuomisto & Cardenas? A picture of the apex of the pinnae could help distinguishing between them.
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wtesto on March 2, 2017 at 6:17 pm

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
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