Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Known only from the "Escarpment Gorges" - read more about this unusual plant at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

Raine, Farrar, & Sheffield in "A new Hymenophyllum species in the Appalachians represented by independent gametophyte colonies" (1991) point out that "H. tayloriae is distinguished from the independent gametophytes of Vittaria appalachiana Farrar & Mickel by its 2-dimensional spathulate gemmae (those of V. appalachiana are uniseriate), rhizoid attachment only to marginal cells, yellow-green color, and glossy texture. Thalloid liverworts of similar size are generally more than one cell thick or have a distinct midrib, have notched apical meristems, and do not produce spathulate gemmae." Read more in Weakley's Flora.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hymenophyllum tayloriae   FAMILY Hymenophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Hymenophyllum tayloriae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Hymenophyllum tayloriae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 2 (1993)

Hymenophyllum tayloriae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 009-02-?:

Hymenophyllum - "a branching ribbon-like gametophyte with marginal rhizoids and small, ovate, plate-like gemmae several cells wide"   FAMILY Hymenophyllaceae

COMMON NAME:
Gorge Filmy-fern, Taylor's Filmy-fern

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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Hymenophyllum tayloriae   FAMILY Hymenophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hymenophyllum tayloriae   FAMILY Hymenophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Hymenophyllum tayloriae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Hymenophyllum tayloriae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 2
Hymenophyllum tayloriae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 009-02-?:
Hymenophyllum - "a branching ribbon-like gametophyte with marginal rhizoids and small, ovate, plate-like gemmae several cells wide"   FAMILY Hymenophyllaceae