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A New Genus of Ferns

1951; American Fern Society; Volume: 41; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1545045

1938-422X

Edwin Bingham Copeland,

Plant Parasitism and Resistance

Solenopteris Copeland, genus novum Polypodiacearuzm. Filix egregia, rhizomate graeili late repente ramoso glauco, paleis parvis peltatis sparsis praedito, tuberifero; frondibus dimorphis ad rhizomate articulatis, sterilibus lanceolatis, pinnatifido-lobatis, herbaceis, glabris, venulis irregulariter anastomosantibus, venulis liberis inclusis raris; frondibus fertilibus duplo longioribus, linearibus; soris utroque latere costae uniserialibus, in areolis magnis ellipticis positis; paraphysibus filiformibus; annulo 1214-articulato; sporis reniformibus, hyalinis. Type and sole known species: Solenopteris bifrons (Hooker) Copeland, comb. nov. (Polypodium bifrons Hooker, Fil. Exot. Pl. LII. 1859. The type of B. bifrons was collected by Jameson (no. 789), whose note on this collection reads: On a tree by the river-side, near Archedofia, Ecuador (124 miles southeast of Quito, on an affluent of the Napo); it was partially immersed in the water, and from the roots were appended hollow, succulent tubers, in which ants had taken refuge. I have annotated fragments of this collection in the U. S. National Herbarium (no. 1,430,026) as the type of the genus. Additional collections to be referred here are: