Diagnostic description ²

Hypolepis urbanii Brause in Urb., Symb. Antill. 9: 344. 1925.

Fig. 6. D

Clambering fern. Rhizomes covered with brown articulate hairs. Fronds clambering, 3-pinnate-pinnatifid, 3 m or more in length; blades coriaceous, pubescent on the lower surface, triangular in outline, up to 1 m wide at the base, the venation yellowish; pinnae subopposite, up to 50 cm long, oblong-deltoid, acuminate; rachis glabrescent or slightly muricate; primary pinnules subopposite or alternate, 3-15 cm long, narrowly oblong-deltoid in outline; stipe and rachis light brown, dark toward the base, glabrescent, unarmed. Sori submarginal; indusia membranaceous, yellowish, glabrous, crenate.

Phenology: Collected in fertile condition in February.

Status: Native, rare.

Selected Specimens Examined: Proctor, G.R. 40130.

Distribution ³

Distribution: Known in Puerto Rico from only one collection from Monte Jayuya (Proctor 40130). Also in Hispaniola.

Public forest: Toro Negro.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=botany&irn=10138034
2. (c) Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/28435029
3. (c) Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/28435631

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