Polypodiaceae

Grammitis flabelliformis (Poir.) C.V.Morton

Also mentioned in the literature as Melpomene flabelliformis, Ctenopteris flabelliformis and Xiphopteris flabelliformis. (?)

Geographic distribution (?)

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Confirmed occurrences (?): Bolivia, Brazil Southeast, Cameroon, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, Ecuador, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Peru, Rwanda, Réunion, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Zimbabwe

Ecology

Found in the biomes (?): TM, TD, TC, TS, FS, MG, DX

Found in the Köppen-Geiger climatic zones (?): Am, Cfb, Cwb, Cwa, Aw, Af, Cwc, Csb, ET, As, BSh, Cfc

Distribution across environmental gradients (?):

Elevation

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BIO1 (annual mean temperature)

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BIO4 (temperature seasonality)

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BIO12 (annual precipitation)

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BIO15 (precipitation seasonality)

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Conservation

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025-2 (?): Not assessed

Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1 (?): Not assessed

Data collection gaps

Botanical countries lacking appropriate occurrence records (?): Haiti, Lesotho, Malawi, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Réunion, Somalia

References

Hemp, A. 2002. Ecology of the pteridophytes on the southern slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. I. Altitudinal distribution. Plant Ecology. 159(2):211–239. doi.org/10.1023/A:1015569125417.

Useful links

Source distribution information: powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17439190-1

Source occurrence data: doi.org/10.15468/dl.82wkxt

Source IUCN conservation status: x