Polypodiaceae
Megalastrum

Megalastrum pulverulentum (Poir.) A.R.Sm. & R.C.Moran

First published in Amer. Fern J. 77: 129 (1988)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Mexico to Tropical America.

Distribution

Native to:

Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • 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.

Kew Bulletin

  • (Smith & Moran 1987: 129).
  • Baker, J. G. (1891). A summary of new ferns discovered since 1874. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 5: 181 – 222 + pl. 14, 301 – 332, 455 – 500.
  • Ching, R. C. (1940). On natural classification of the family Polypodiaceae. Sunyatsenia 5: 201 – 268.
  • Christ, H (1906). Filices IV. Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 6: 45 – 58.
  • Christ, H. (1904). Primitiae Florae Costaricensis: Filices et Lycopodiaceae III. Bull. Herb. Boissier, sér. 2, 4(10): 957 – 972.
  • Christensen, C (1913). A monograph of the genus Dryopteris, Part I. The tropical American pinnatifid-bipinnatifid species. Kongel. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. Naturvidensk. Math. Afd., ser. 7, 10: 55 – 282.
  • Christensen, C (1920). A monograph of the genus Dryopteris, Part II. The tropical American bipinnate-decompound species. Kongel. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. Naturvidensk. Math. Afd., ser. 8, 6: 3 – 132.
  • Christensen, C. (1905). Index Filicum. H. Hagerup, Copenhagen.
  • Copeland, E. B. (1947). Genera Filicum. Ann. Crypt. Phytopath. 5: 1 – 247.
  • Desvaux, A. N. (1827). Prodrome de la famille des fougères. Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris 6: 171 – 337.
  • Diels, L. (1899). Loxsoma, Cyatheaceae, Polypodiaceae. In: A. Engler & K. A. E. Prantl (eds), Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien 1(4): 112 – 336. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig.
  • Duss, A. (1903). Division, nomenclature & habitat des fougères & lycopodes des Antilles Francaises. Lons-le-Saunier.
  • Fée, A. L. A. (1852). Genera Filicum. Mémoires sur la famille des Fougères 5: 1 – 387. Berger-Levrault, Strasbourg.
  • Fée, A. L. A. (1857). Description des fougères exotiques rares ou nouvelles, 3me partie. Mémoires sur la famille des Fougères 8: 67 – 138. Berger-Levrault, Strasbourg.
  • Fée, A. L. A. (1866). Historie des fougères et des lycopodiacées des Antilles. Mémoires sur la famille des Fougères 11 : 1 – 164. Berger-Levrault, Strasbourg.
  • Hieronymus, G. (1907). Plantae Stübellianae. Pteridophyta von Dr. Alphons Stübel auf seinen Reisen nach Südamerika in Columbien, Ecuador, Peru und Bolivien gesammelte Pteridophyten. Hedwigia 46: 322 – 364.
  • Hooker, W. J. & Baker, J. G. (1867). Synopsis Filicum. Robert Hardwicke, London.
  • Jenman, G. S. (1896). Synoptical list of the ferns and fern-allies of Jamaica. Bull. Bot. Dept. 3: 104.
  • Klotzsch, J. F. (1847). Beiträge einer flora der Aequinoctial-Gegenden der neuen Welt. Filices (Pt. 2) Linnaea 20: 337 – 445.
  • Lamarck, J. B. A. P. M. de. (1804). Encyclopédie méthodique: botanique 5. Panckoucke, Paris; Plomteux, Liège.
  • Lellinger, D. B. (1975). A phytogeographic analysis of Chocó pteridophytes. Fern Gaz. 11: 105 – 114.
  • Lellinger, D. B. (1977). Nomenclatural and taxonomic notes on the pteridophytes of Costa Rica, Panamá and Colombia: 1. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 89: 703 – 732.
  • Lellinger, D. B. (1984). New combinations and some new names in ferns. Amer. Fern J. 74: 56 – 60.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • Lellinger, D. B. (1985). Nomenclatural and taxonomic notes on the pteridophytes of Costa Rica, Panamá and Colombia: 2. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 98: 366 – 390.
  • Martens, M. (1842). Mémoire sur les fougères du Mexique. Nouv. Mém. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 15: 1 – 99.
  • Mettenius, G. H. (1858). Ueber einige Farngattungen. Phegopteris, Aspidium Abh. Senckenberg Naturf. Ges. 2(2): 285 – 420.
  • Mickel, J. T. & Smith, A. R. (2004). The pteridophytes of Mexico. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 88: 1 – 1054.
  • Monterrosa, J. & Monro, A. K. (2008). Annotated checklist of the Monilophytes (ferns) and Lycophytes of El Salvador. Fern Gaz. 18: 120 – 214.
  • Moran, R. C. (1995). The importance of mountains to pteridophytes, with emphasis on neotropical montane forests. In: S. P. Churchill, H. Balslev, E. Forero & J. L. Luteyn (eds), Biodiversity and Conservation of Neotropical Montane Forests, pp. 359 – 363. The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York.
  • Moran, R. C. (1996). The importance of the Andes as a barrier to migration, as illustrated by the pteridophytes of the Chocó phytogeographic region. In: J. M. Camus, M. Gibby & R. J. Johns (eds), Pteridology in Perspective p. 75. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Moran, R. C., Prado, J. & Labiak, P. H. (2009). Megalastrum (Dryopteridaceae) in the Antilles. Brittonia 61: 273 – 292.
  • Moran, R. C., Prado, J. & Labiak, P. H. (2009a). Megalastrum (Dryopteridaceae) in Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Amer. Fern J. 99: 1 – 44.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • Moran, R. C., Prado, J. & Labiak, P. H. (2009b). Megalastrum (Dryopteridaceae) in the Antilles. Brittonia 61: 273 – 292.
  • Proctor, G. R. (1985). Ferns of Jamaica. British Museum (Natural History), London.
  • Rojas, A. F. (1996). Aportes a la flora pteridophyta Costaricense II: taxones nuevos. Brenesia 45 – 46: 33 – 50.
  • Rojas, A. F. (2001). Ocho nuevas especies y nuevos ámbitos geográficos de helechos de la familia Tectariaceae (Filicales) en el Neotrópico. Revista Biol. Trop. 49: 467 – 488.
  • Rojas, A. F. (2007). New species in Megalastrum subincisum complex (Dryopteridaceae) from Costa Rica. Brenesia 68: 17 – 24.
  • Rojas, A. F. (2008). Novelties in the Megalastrum biseriale complex (Dryopteridaceae) from the Neotropics. Met. Ecol. y Sist. 3 (Suppl. 1): 41 – 53.
  • Rojas-Alvarado, A. F. (2001). Ocho nuevas especies y nuevos ámbitos geográficos de helechos de la familia Tectariaceae (Filicales) en el Neotrópico. Revista Biol. Trop. 49: 467 – 488.
  • Rosenstock, E. (1925). Filices novae a cll. Alfred et Curt Brade in Costa Rica collectae. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 22 (606 – 608): 2 – 23.
  • Rouhan, G. & Moran, R. C. (2011). Monograph of the paleotropical species of Megalastrum (Dryopteridaceae). Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 98:
  • Smith & Moran, R. C. (1987). New combinations in Megalastrum (Dryopteridaceae). Amer. Fern J. 77: 124 – 130.
  • Smith, A. R. & Moran, R. C. (1987). New combinations in Megalastrum (Dryopteridaceae). Amer. Fern J. 77: 124 – 130.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • Smith, A. R. & Moran, R. C. (1995). Megalastrum . In: G. Davidse et al. (gen. eds.), Flora Mesoamericana. Vol. 1. Psilotaceae a Salviniaceae, pp: 202 – 204. Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria.
  • Smith, A. R. (1981). Pteridophytes. In: D. E. Breedlove (ed.), Flora of Chiapas 2: 1 – 370. California Academy of Science, San Francisco.
  • Sodiro, A. (1883). Recensio Cryptogamarum Vascularium Provinciae Quitensis. Quito.
  • Stolze, R. G. (1977). New taxa and combinations of Ctenitis from Guatemala. Amer. Fern J. 67: 40 – 44.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • Stolze, R. G. (1981). Ferns and fern allies of Guatemala. Fieldiana, Bot., n.s. 6: 1– 522.
  • Sundue, M., Rouhan, G. & Moran, R. C. (2010). Megalastrum (Dryopteridaceae) of the circumaustral region: Chile, Argentina, and southern islands of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. Syst. Bot. 35: 1 – 15.
  • Urban, I. & Maxon, W. R. (1924). New or critical ferns from Haiti. J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 14: 86 – 92.
  • Urban, I. (1903). Symbolae Antillanae 3 – Flora Portoricensis. Fratres Borntraeger, Berlin; Paul Klincksieck, Paris.
  • Urban, I. (1922). Plantae Haitienesis. Ark. Bot. 17: 67 – 69.
  • Urban, I. (1925). Symbolae Antillarum 9 – Pteridophyta Domingensia. Fratres Borntraeger, Berlin; Paul Klincksieck, Paris.
  • Vareschi, V. (1969). Helechos, Flora de Venezuela I. Instituto Botánico, Caracas.
  • Willdenow, K. L. (1810). Cryptogamia. Species Plantarum , 4th ed., vol. 5. G. C. Nauk, Berlin.

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

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.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

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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 2026. 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 Bulletin

    • Kew Bulletin
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  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. 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

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

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