Sticherus velatus (Kunze) Copeland (1947: 28)

Mertensia velata Kunze (1834: 15) . Gleichenia velata (Kunze) Mettenius (1856: 113) . Dicranopteris velata (Kunze) Maxon (1922a: 50).

Type: — PERU. Huánuco: Pampayacu, July 1829, Poeppig s.n. (holotype W, the fragment of Poeppig s.n. at US annotated as isotype of S. velatus is S. lanosus).

Distribution and ecology:— Disjunct and apparently nowhere common in the Andes of Venezeula, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, and in southeastern Brazil. In montane forests, clearings, and along roadsides at 1500–2400 m, down to 900 m in Brazil.