Claim · model-written summary
Pteridophytes represented over one quarter of the epiphytic flora regardless of host.
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e0“Regardless of the host, pteridophytes represented over 25% of the epiphytic flora”
Title
Louis Zapfack; Aloys Bernard Nkongmeneck; Jean Francois Villiers; et al. Selbyana 1996
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation Triplochiton scleroxylon hosted the most pteridophytes.
- Observation Canarium schweinfurthii hosted among the fewest pteridophytes.
- Observation Terminalia superba hosted among the fewest pteridophytes.
- Observation The survey recorded 78 epiphytic species.
- Observation Monocotyledons accounted for 51 epiphytic species.
- Observation Pteridophytes accounted for 20 epiphytic species.
- Observation Dicotyledons accounted for seven epiphytic species, the smallest group.
- Observation Each host tree had more than five pteridophytes.
- Observation Polypodiaceae was the most diverse pteridophyte family, with eight species.
- Observation Davalliaceae comprised five species.
- Observation Aspleniaceae comprised four species.
- Association Factor analysis found no strict tree species specificity for pteridophytes.