Abstract
The fern Rumohra ponceana sp. nov., a narrow endemic of the Austral Pampean district, Pampean biogeographic province in Argentina, is described and illustrated. The species inhabits the Tandilia and Ventania Systems, where it grows in sunny rock crevices. The new species differs from the widespread R. adiantiformis (sensu lato) by the reduced size of all parts of the sporophyte and conspicuous capitate glandular hairs at the margins of petiole and rhizome scales. Also, there are significant differences in the architecture of the laminae, the colour and size of the spores and the ornamentation of the perispore, which is folded in R. ponceana and projects in irregular tubercles throughout its surface.
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Crisci, J.V., Freire, S., Sancho, G. & Katinas, L. (2001) Historical biogeography of the Asteraceae from Tandilia and Ventania mountain ranges (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Caldasia 23: 21–41.
D´Ambroggio de Argüeso, A. (1986) Manual de Técnicas en Histología Vegetal. Buenos Aires: Hemisferio Sur.
de la Sota, E.R. (1967) Composición, origen y vinculaciones de la flora pteridológica de las sierras de Buenos Aires (Argentina). Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica 11: 105–128.
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Desvaux, É.-É. (1854) Gramíneas. Flora Chilena 6: 233–469.
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from the Missouri Botanical Garden 60: 1–79.
Ponce, M., Mehltreter, K. & de la Sota, E.R. (2002) Análisis biogeográfico de la diversidad pteridofítica en Argentina y Chile continental. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 75: 703–717.
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PPG I. (2016) A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 54: 563–603. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12229
Raddi, G. (1819) Synopsis filicum brasiliensium. Opuscoli Scientifici d’una Società di Professori della Pontifical Università di Bologna 3: 279–297.
Rakotondrainibe, F. (2010) Le genre Rumohra Raddi (Pteridophyta, Dryopteridaceae) à Madagascar: une espèce et deux combinaisons nouvelles. Adansonia 32: 217–228.
Shah, S.N., Ahmad, M., Zafar, M., Hadi, F., Khan, M.N., Noor, A., Malik, K., Rashid, N., Kamal, A., Iqbal, M. & Hussain, M. (2021) Application of spore morphology to solve identification problems in certain species of family Dryopteridaceae from Malakand Division, Pakistan. Microscopic Research & Techniques 84: 1897—1910. https://doi.org/10.1002/jemt.23746
Sundue, M.A., Hirai, R.Y. & Prado, J. (2013) Rumohra glandulosissima (Dryopteridaceae) a new species from the Atlantic Rainforest, and revision of the species occurring in Brazil. Systematic Botany 38: 915–924.
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von Trinius, C.B. (1830) Stipa subgenus Nassella. Mémoires de l’Académie Imperiale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. Sixième Série. Sciences Mathématiques, Physiques et Naturelles 1: 73.
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Zalba, S.M. & Villamil, C.B. (2002) Woody plant invasion in relictual grasslands. Biological Invasions 4: 55–72. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020532609792