Aleuritopteris — Details

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Rhizome erect or creeping. Fronds pinnately compound, basiscopically developed, with pinnae or ultimate segments never articulated and with a coloured (whitish, pale- or orange-yellow) powdery indumentum on the underside.. Sori borne on vein endings near the margins, usually covered by a continuous indusium formed from the reflexed margin.
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Distribution

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Aleuritopteris Fée:
Colombia (South America)
Costa Rica (Mesoamerica)
Ecuador (South America)
El Salvador (Mesoamerica)
Guatemala (Mesoamerica)
Honduras (Mesoamerica)
Peru (South America)
Yemen (Asia)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
Caribbean (Caribbean)
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Aleuritopteris

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Aleuritopteris is a genus of ferns in the Cheilanthoideae subfamily of the Pteridaceae.[1] It includes but is not limited to the following species:

References

  1. ^ a b Christenhusz, Maarten J. M.; Zhang, Xian-Chun; Schneider, Harald (18 February 2011). "A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns". Phytotaxa 19: 7–54. ISSN 1179-3163. http://www.mapress.com/phytotaxa/content/2011/f/pt00019p054.pdf. 
  2. ^ Zhang 2004 Gang-Min Zhang: "Aleuritopteris gongshanensis (Pteridaceae), a New Species from Yunnan, China." Novon 14: 513–515 (2004)
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