Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 273 No. 3: 9 September 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-09-09
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.273.3.4
Page range: 175–182
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species and a new combination in Meniscium (Thelypteridaceae) from Brazil

Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Centro de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais, MA-222, KM 04, S/N, Boa Vista. CEP 65500-000, Chapadinha, Maranhão, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Botânica, Caixa Postal 486, 30123-970, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ferns Thelypteris Dryopteris Brazil Pteridophytes

Abstract

A new species of Meniscium from northern and central Brazil, M. delicatum, is described and illustrated. In addition, a new combination in Meniscium is proposed for Dryopteris pachysorum. A key for the Brazilian species of Meniscium is presented.