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Issue: Vol. 618 No. 1: 29 Sept. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-09-29
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.618.1.7
Page range: 79-85
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Leptochilus scandens (Polypodiaceae), a new microsoroid fern species from Guangdong, China

Eastern China Conservation Centre for Wild Endangered Plant Resources; Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden; Shanghai; 201602; China
Guangzhou Linfang Ecology Co.; Ltd.; Guangzhou; Guangdong; 510520; China
Eastern China Conservation Centre for Wild Endangered Plant Resources; Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden; Shanghai; 201602; China
Pteridophytes South China climber hemiepiphyte monomorphic frond alternate lobes

Abstract

Leptochilus scandens, a new microsoroid fern species of Polypodiaceae from southwestern Guangdong, South China, is described and illustrated. The new species is similar to some taxa of the L. ellipticus complex in its frond shape and lobe size, but differs them by its climbing habit, monomorphic frond, fewer lobes, and precocious individuals sometimes with simple or 2- or 3-lobed fertile fronds.

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