Polyphlebium angustatum is a species of fern in the family Hymenophyllaceae. It is found in South America and on a number of Atlantic islands, including Tristan da Cunha.[1] The genus Polyphlebium is accepted in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I),[2] but not by other sources. As of October 2019^[update], Plants of the World Online sank the genus into a broadly defined Trichomanes, treating this species as Trichomanes angustatum.[3]

Polyphlebium angustatum
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Hymenophyllales
Family:	Hymenophyllaceae
Genus:	Polyphlebium
Species:	P. angustatum
Binomial name
Polyphlebium angustatum (Carmich.) Ebihara & Dubuisson[1]
Synonyms[1]
Trichomanes angustatum Carmich. Vandenboschia angustata (Carmich.) Copel. Trichomanes fulvum Klotzsch Trichomanes intermedium Kaulf. Trichomanes schiedeanum Fée Trichomanes subexsertum Bosch Trichomanes tenerum Spreng. Vandenboschia tenera (Spreng.) Copel.

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