Goniopteris ×tico (Thelypteridaceae), a new hybrid fern from Costa Rica

Goniopteris ×tico, a new hybrid fern from La Selva Biological Station in Heredia Province, Costa Rica, is described based on morphology and analysis of target-capture DNA sequence data. The hybrid co-occurs with its two putative progenitors, Goniopteris mollis and Goniopteris nicaraguensis, and is readily recognizable by its intermediate leaf dissection and venation. It is also intermediate in pinnae size and shape and presents irregularly lobed pinnae. Despite the broad overlap in the geographic distribution of its parental taxa, Goniopteris ×tico is only known from two collections from a single area of the La Selva Biological Station, highlighting the importance of close observation of ferns from even well-collected areas., , , # Goniopteris ×tico (Thelypteridaceae), a New Hybrid Fern from Costa Rica

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9w0vt4bnr](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9w0vt4bnr)

This dataset includes FASTA files of multiple sequence alignments of 352 low-copy nuclear loci, as well as summary tables of the output of these analyses.

## Description of the data and file structure

Accession names match supplementary data provided in the Zenodo repository: https://zenodo.org/records/7832162

**Table 1: Results of HybPhaser Analysis**
**Key to column headers:**

* Sample Number - Accession number from NCBI Sequence Read Archive
* Voucher - Collector surname and collection number
* Country - Country where voucher was collected
* Taxon - species name
* bp - Total base pair count
* allele\_divergence - % sequence divergence calculated by HybPhaser
* locus\_heterozygosity - Percentage of loci with heterozygosity scores above threshold
* loci with >0.5% SNPs - Percentage of loci with >0.5% SNPs
* loci with &g...