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Pteris ×caridadiae (Pteridaceae), a new hybrid fern from Costa Rica

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Pteris ×caridadiae, a new hybrid fern from Costa Rica, is described and its relationships to its parents and other Pteris species are discussed. This is the first hybrid reported among a taxonomically complicated group of large, tripartite-leaved neotropical Pteris species.

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Acknowledgments

We wish to thank Felipe and Marino Chacón and the staff at the Savegre Reserve for support. We also thank the Organization for Tropical Studies for logistical help. This work was funded in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation, IOS-1258186 and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship awarded to WLT.

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  1. Pringle Herbarium, Plant Biology Department, University of Vermont, 27 Colchester Avenue, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA

    Weston L. Testo

  2. Biology Department, Colgate University, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY, 13346, USA

    James E. Watkins & Rehman Momin

  3. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA

    Jarmila Pittermann

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Testo, W.L., Watkins, J.E., Pittermann, J. et al. Pteris ×caridadiae (Pteridaceae), a new hybrid fern from Costa Rica. Brittonia 67, 138–143 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12228-015-9370-8

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