Sticherus remotus (Kaulf.) Chrysler (1944: 383)

Mertensia remota Kaulfuss (1824: 39) . Dicranopteris remota (Kaulf.) Maxon (1922a: 50) . Gleichenia remota (Kaulf.) Sprengel (1927: 27).

Type: — BRAZIL. Santa Catarina: Ilha de Santa Catarina, Chamisso s.n. (holotype LZ destroyed, isotype LE?).

Gleichenia trachyrhizoma Christ (1906: 280) . Type:— COSTA RICA. Valle del Río Navarro, Wercklé s.n. (holotype S).

Dicranopteris williamsii Maxon (1912: 21) . Type:— PANAMA. Cana and vicinity, 6000 ft., Williams 917 (holotype US, isotype NY).

Distribution and ecology:— Lowlands and lower montane zone of Costa Rica (Isla de Cocos), Panama, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Grenada, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Amazonian and southeastern Brazil. The species is widespread but apparently nowhere common, in humid forests, often near streams or along humid road banks, mostly at 400–1200 m but down to 100 m in Panama and 20 m in Brazil, and up to 2450 m in Bolivia.