Polypodiaceae
Grammitis

Grammitis flabelliformis (Poir.) C.V.Morton

First published in Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 38: 57 (1967)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Mexico (Oaxaca, Chiapas) to Tropical America, Tropical & S. Africa, W. Indian Ocean. It is a lithophyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Bolivia, Brazil Southeast, Cameroon, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Peru, Rwanda, Réunion, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Extinct in:

Mauritius

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. [Cited as Melpomene flabelliformis.]

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Roux, J.P. (2016). The Lycopods and Ferns of Drakensberg and Lesotho: 1-384. Briza academic books, Pretoria, South Africa.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (2019). Lista de especies vedadas por la resolución 213 de 1977. 8256 especies. http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=le_plantaspriorizadas_2019

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Mar 1, 2000 McConnell, F.V.; Quelch, J.J. [558] Guyana Melpomene flabelliformis K001382040 Yes
Jun 28, 1999 Rosenstock, E. [27] Melpomene flabelliformis K000435896 Unknown Type Material Yes
Jannerup; Mhoro [0163] Tanzania Melpomene flabelliformis K001636689 Yes
Quelch, J.J.; McConnell [66] Guyana Melpomene flabelliformis K001382039 Yes
Holm-Nielsen, L.B. [19084] Ecuador Melpomene flabelliformis K001636534 Yes
Quelch, J.J; McConnell, R. [47] Guyana Melpomene flabelliformis K001382038 Yes
Jan 1, 1998 Cheek, M. [5340] Cameroon Xiphopteris flabelliformis K000381466 No

Sources

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

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  • Flora of West Tropical Africa

    • Flora of West Tropical Africa
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0