Polypodiaceae

Pleopeltis macrocarpa (Bory ex Willd.) Kaulf.

Also mentioned in the literature as x. (?)

Geographic distribution (?)

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Confirmed occurrences (?): Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central American Pacific Is., Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, Ecuador, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Free State, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Juan Fernández Is., Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Somalia, Sri Lanka, St.Helena, Tanzania, Uganda, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yemen, Zimbabwe

Ecology

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

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

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 (?): Angola, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Burundi, Central American Pacific Is., Eswatini, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mauritius, Mexico Northwest, Nigeria, Socotra, Somalia, St.Helena

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:17448650-1

Source occurrence data: doi.org/10.15468/dl.ekk9fu

Source IUCN conservation status: x