Sticherus blepharolepis (Sodiro) Ching (1940: 282)

Gleichenia blepharolepis Sodiro (1883: 5) . Gleichenia pubescens var. blepharolepis (Sodiro) Sodiro (1893: 376) .

Type: — ECUADOR. Pichincha: Canzacoto a las orillas del RíoYamboya, 1800 m, Sodiro s.n. (not located) .

Distribution and ecology: —Endemic to the western Andean slope of Colombia (Chocó, Antioquia) and northern Ecuador (Imbabura, Pichincha) in humid montane forests at ca. 1700–2300 m.

Notes: —We were unable to locate the type of Sticherus blepharolepis and thus followed the concept of Østergaard & Øllgaard (2001), who studied the original material assigned by Sodiro to this species.