Subspecies of Hypolepis rugosula (Dennstaedtiaceae; Pteridophyta) around the world: morphological and biogeographic perspectives

• Published in: Acta Botanica Brasilica
• Main Authors: Pedro Bond Schwartsburd, Jefferson Prado
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Botânica do Brasil 2014
• Subjects: Cold refugia; Phegopteris rugosula; Polypodium rugosulum; taxonomic revision; widely distributed ferns; Botany; QK1-989; Antarctic; New Zealand; Tristan; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-33062014000200008; https://doaj.org/article/1cb465913a634a6bb65bf173406e55d2

The "Hypolepis rugosula complex" has been the subject of great debate among pteridologists: some have considered H. rugosula a single subcosmopolitan (or circum-Antarctic) species, whereas others have considered it a species-complex, encompassing several species. In the 1920s and 1930s, fo...