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 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

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 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