09-27-2010, 11:05 PM
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Re: Malagasy Plants?
Heard back from a professor at UC Berkeley today regarding the fern I posted above and figured I would share:
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Looking at the images again, and comparing them with specimens in UC (we have several from Liberia), and literature, I am convinced that the West African plants sometimes known as Microgramma lycopodioides are distinct from Neotropical specimens of the same name. I would call the plants from Liberia, Cameroon, Sao Tome, etc., Microgramma owariensis (Desv.) Alston, the type is from West Africa. This species is more dimorphic and thicker-textured than is M. lycopodioides. In fact, M. owariensis, in these respects, is more like the Mexican and Central American species known as M. nitida (syn. M. palmeri) than it is M. lycopodioides. I prefer to keep M. owariensis as a separate species, for the time being.
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