taxonID	type	description	language	source
03EDBE1F1E7CFF94FF6F2DB5FC279588.taxon	description	Phylogenetic analyses place Danaea as sister to the remainder of Marattiaceae (Murdock 2008 a), but the isolated position of the family makes this conclusion tenuous (Murdock 2008 b). We disagree with the very broad species circumscriptions of Rolleri (2004), who treated Danaea as including only 17 species. Instead, we apply a narrower taxonomic concept (mostly following, but not identical with, Tuomisto & Moran 2001; Christenhusz & Tuomisto 2005, 2006; Christenhusz 2010 a). Our current estimate is that Danaea comprises at least 50 species. In Amazonia, where several species co-occur, there is a clear ecological separation of species by soil characteristics, especially nutrient concentration and drainage (Tuomisto & Poulsen 1996; Christenhusz & Tuomisto 2005), which presumably also played a role in the diversification of the genus (Christenhusz et al. 2008).	en	Tuomisto, Hanna, Kessler, Michael, Smith, Alan R. (2018): Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. VIII. Marattiaceae. Phytotaxa 344 (1): 64-68, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.8
03EDBE1F1E7FFF97FF6F2ED9FF32912F.taxon	biology_ecology	Ecology: — Rare, known from four Bolivian collections; terrestrial in humid montane forests; 800 – 1500 m. Notes: — The erect rhizome of this species becomes more than 0.5 m (or even 1 m) tall, which is unusual in Danaea.	en	Tuomisto, Hanna, Kessler, Michael, Smith, Alan R. (2018): Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. VIII. Marattiaceae. Phytotaxa 344 (1): 64-68, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.8
03EDBE1F1E7FFF97FF6F2C97FE8D96D4.taxon	biology_ecology	Ecology: — Fairly common; terrestrial in humid forests, usually along streams or on steep slopes; 200 – 700 m in Bolivia, to 1300 m elsewhere. Notes: — Specimens belonging to this species have traditionally been referred to Danaea elliptica Sm., together with most specimens of subg. Arthrodanaea (Smith et al. 1999, Tuomisto & Moran 2001). However, the type specimen of D. elliptica is a juvenile of D. nodosa (L.) Sm., which renders the former name a synonym of the latter (Christenhusz & Tuomisto 2006). Danaea geniculata is the oldest name that is available to replace D. elliptica for plants in this group, and is used here for the Bolivian material that is not referable to D. arbuscula or any of the other recently described segregate species. However, the type of D. geniculata is from the Atlantic forests of southeastern Brazil, and the species limits in this complex remain to be clarified. The possibility exists that there is an as yet undescribed species in Bolivia.	en	Tuomisto, Hanna, Kessler, Michael, Smith, Alan R. (2018): Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. VIII. Marattiaceae. Phytotaxa 344 (1): 64-68, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.8
03EDBE1F1E7FFF97FF6F2DD4FD3E90EA.taxon	biology_ecology	Ecology: — Rare in Bolivia (known from a single collection: Weigelt 90542, GOET, LPB, TUR, Z), but widespread and relatively common in western Amazonia; terrestrial in humid forests on hilly or flat terrain, on well-drained loamy soil, often close to creeks or rivers (Christenhusz & Tuomisto 2006); 100 – 400 m. Notes: — This is probably the largest species in the genus, with individuals reaching more than 2 m in height. Before the species was described in 2006, specimens belonging to it had been mistakenly referred to D. ulei (e. g., Tuomisto & Poulsen 1996, Tuomisto & Moran 2001).	en	Tuomisto, Hanna, Kessler, Michael, Smith, Alan R. (2018): Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. VIII. Marattiaceae. Phytotaxa 344 (1): 64-68, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.8
03EDBE1F1E7FFF97FF6F2AD9FC5D95BB.taxon	description	Range: — Mountains from Mexico to Guianas and Bolivia (CO, LP, SC).	en	Tuomisto, Hanna, Kessler, Michael, Smith, Alan R. (2018): Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. VIII. Marattiaceae. Phytotaxa 344 (1): 64-68, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.8
03EDBE1F1E7FFF97FF6F2AD9FC5D95BB.taxon	biology_ecology	Ecology: — Fairly common; terrestrial in humid forests, often along streams; 800 – 2700 m. This is the common mid-sized Danaea in montane parts of Bolivia. Notes: — Traditionally, South American material has been identified as D. moritziana (type from Venezuela) and Mexican / Central American material as D. cuspidata (type from Mexico). It is likely that more than one species are really involved, but here we treat D. cuspidata under D. moritziana mainly because species delimitation needs to be clarified before distributional limits can be defined between the two.	en	Tuomisto, Hanna, Kessler, Michael, Smith, Alan R. (2018): Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. VIII. Marattiaceae. Phytotaxa 344 (1): 64-68, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.8
03EDBE1F1E7FFF96FF6F2878FC9B9252.taxon	biology_ecology	Ecology: — Common; terrestrial in humid forests, usually on fertile clayey soil, often near streams; mostly 200 – 600 m, rarely to 1300 m. This is the common large Danaea in Bolivian lowlands. Notes: — Young leaves often have a metallic-blue sheen. They become pinnate at a very early stage (usually when less than 15 cm long), unlike D. cartilaginea, whose smallest pinnate leaves are at least 20 cm long and simple leaves can exceed 40 cm. Bolivian specimens have previously been referred to Danaea nodosa Sm. (Smith et al. 1999, Tuomisto & Moran 2001), described from the Greater Antilles, but the Amazonian and Guianan specimens belong to a different clade than specimens from the Caribbean (Christenhusz et al. 2008). Here we use the name D. nigrescens, which is the oldest name with an Amazonian or Guianan type.	en	Tuomisto, Hanna, Kessler, Michael, Smith, Alan R. (2018): Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. VIII. Marattiaceae. Phytotaxa 344 (1): 64-68, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.8
03EDBE1F1E7EFF96FF6F2D5DFD679082.taxon	description	Species currently placed in Eupodium were long treated as members of the genus Marattia (e. g., Underwood 1909, Tuomisto & Moran 2001, Lavalle 2003), but molecular studies have shown that three distinct clades are involved, including Marattia in the strict sense, with 7 species in Mexico and the Caribbean region, southern Brazil, and Hawai’i, palaeotropical Ptisana, with 20 species, and neotropical Eupodium (sister to Ptisana) (Murdock 2008 a). As thus treated, all three genera are monophyletic.	en	Tuomisto, Hanna, Kessler, Michael, Smith, Alan R. (2018): Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. VIII. Marattiaceae. Phytotaxa 344 (1): 64-68, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.8
03EDBE1F1E7EFF96FF6F2C89FC7F97FA.taxon	biology_ecology	Ecology: — Locally common; terrestrial in humid forests, usually along streams; 1500 – 3500 m. Notes: — Long treated as Eupodium laeve (Sm.) Murdock (= Marattia laevis Sm.), but a recent taxonomic study has restricted that species to the Greater Antilles (Christenhusz 2010 b).	en	Tuomisto, Hanna, Kessler, Michael, Smith, Alan R. (2018): Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. VIII. Marattiaceae. Phytotaxa 344 (1): 64-68, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.8
