Elaphoglossum glabellum
Description
Rhizomes short- to moderately creeping, 2–3 mm diam.; rhizome scales lanceolate, lustrous dark brown to black, with pale brown bases, margin, and tip, 1–2 mm long, entire or with a few weak teeth, scales often somewhat deciduous and leaving partially naked rhizomes; fronds slightly spaced, to 33 X 0.5–1 cm; phyllopodia distinct, 4–8 mm long; stipes 1⁄10–1⁄5 the frond length, glabrous or with minute appressed scales; blades linear-elliptic, coriaceous, gradually acuminate at both ends; veins obscure, free, simple or once-forked, ca. 1 mm apart, at ca. 70° angle to costa; hydathodes absent; blade surfaces glabrous or with very sparse minute stellate trichomidia on the abaxial surfaces; fertile fronds slightly shorter than the sterile fronds, the stipes longer (1⁄3–1⁄2 the fertile frond length) and the blades broader (ca. 10 mm wide), scales absent; 2n=ca. 164 (Trin).A
A. Mickel, J. T. & Smith, A. R. 2004: The Pteridophytes of Mexico Vol. 88
Discussion
See E. parduei for comparison with that species.B
B. Mickel, J. T. & Smith, A. R. 2004: The Pteridophytes of Mexico Vol. 88
Specimen
Oax (Mickel 4800, 6522, 6673, 6696, NY).D
D. Mickel, J. T. & Smith, A. R. 2004: The Pteridophytes of Mexico Vol. 88