Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Cystoperis montana [Athyrium montanum] [Cyste montana] [Cystea montana] etc.
- Family
- Cystopteridaceae
- CommonName
- mountain bladder fern, mountain brittle fern
- Presence
- yes
- Status
- EarliestDate
- 1986
- LatestDate
- 1986
- Ecosystem
- subalpine
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans
- Counties
- Conejos
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- PhotoRecords
- Comments
- NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Mountain brittle fern, endemic to Colorado, has only one voucher from the Watershed: Conejos River, two miles southwest of Hidden Lake (Conejos Co, 1986). In the lower USA, Cystoperis montana is found only in Montana and Colorado. So the Watershed location is the only one in the entire Rio Grande drainage. Note that historically taxonomists have had trouble placing this taxon, and POWO lists 16 synonyms.
- Annotation