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| Synonyms: |
Asplenium mary-annae G. Kunkel Coniogramme fraxinea (D.Don) Diels Gymnogramme serrulate sensu Kuhn |
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| Description: | Rhizome creeping, up to 8 mm in diameter; rhizome scales about 6 mm long, brown, concolorous, lanceolate in outline, apex gradually tapering to a point. Fronds spaced, 1–4 cm apart, herbaceous, arching. Stipe straw-coloured or tinged purple, up to 45 cm long with scales similar to the rhizome at the base, otherwise glabrous. Lamina 50 × 30 cm or larger, pinnate but with the lowest pair of pinnae pinnatifid. Pinnae oblanceolate or linear-oblong in outline, 10–30 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, abruptly ending in a long tail-like tip at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base, margin minutely toothed, glabrous; veins thickened near margin above. Rhachis straw-coloured, glabrous. Sori linear along the veins, exindusiate. | |
| Notes: | ||
| Derivation of specific name: | africana: African | |
| Worldwide distribution: | Widespread in tropical Africa. | |
| Growth form(s): | Epiphyte, lithophyte. | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species | |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Burrows, S.M. (1993). An annotated check-list of the pteridophytes of Malawi Kirkia 14(1) Page 86. Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 40. (Includes a picture). Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1989). The flora and phytogeography of the evergreen forests of Malawi. I: Afromontane and mid-altitude forests; Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 59(1/2) Page 25. Roux, J.P. (2001). Conspectus of Southern African Pteridophyta. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report 13 Page 73. Roux, J.P. (2009). Synopsis of the Lycopodiophyta and Pteridophyta of Africa, Madagascar and neighbouring islands Page 106. Schelpe, E.A.C.L.E. (1970). Pteridophyta Flora Zambesiaca Page 102. (Includes a picture). Verdcourt, B. (2002). Adiantaceae Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 48 - 49. (Includes a picture). |
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