Willdenowia 36

Willdenowia – Annals of the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
ISSN 0511-9618
© 2006 BGBM Berlin-Dahlem.

Regalado Gabancho, L., Sánchez, C. & Prada, C. 2006: Asplenium veneticolor, a new spleenwort (Aspleniaceae, Pteridophyta) from Cuba.
Willdenowia 36: 871-880.
doi:10.3372/wi.36.36218

Abstract
A new spleenwort from E Cuba is described and illustrated: Asplenium veneticolor. It is closely related to A. dentatum, a widespread species in Cuba. In nature it can be recognised by its distinctive bluish green (venetian) colour, on dry material moreover by its fertile leaf blades being pinnatifid at apex, with oblong to oblanceolate pinnae. Stem scales, indusia and spores provide additional criteria that support the distinctness of the two taxa.

Key words: ferns, taxonomy, micromorphology, Asplenium dentatum, Greater Antilles.

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