Danaea alata, Sm. Christenhusz, 2711

Keskiniva, Venni, Tuomisto, Hanna & Lehtonen, Samuli, 2024, Danaea (Marattiaceae) keeps diversifying, part 2: phylogeny and identification key for 81 taxa, Willdenowia 53 (3), pp. 229-255 : 238

Danaea alata clade

This is a moderately supported clade (BP = 72) that contains species from all corners of the wet American tropics: the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil ( Danaea ubatubensis ), the Lesser Antilles and the Venezuelan coast ( D. alata ), Central America ( D. wendlandii ), the Pacific coast of Colombia and Ecuador ( D. gracilis ), and western Amazonia ( D. lanceolata ).

Danaea wendlandii , D. gracilis , and D. lanceolata form a well-supported clade (BP = 100) and are rather uniform in appearance, being rather small and having lanceolate laminae with narrow pinnae and terminal buds. Danaea alata and D. ubatubensis are clearly larg- er species, although D. ubatubensis shares the propensity to produce terminal buds. Three of the species were strongly supported as monophyletic, but D. gracilis was resolved as paraphyletic.