Asplenium - Aspleniaceae

Asplenium chaseanum Schelpe

 

 

 

 

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Description

Rhizome erect, c. 4 mm diameter; rhizome scales awl-shaped, up to 3 mm long, margins entire, dark brown. Fronds monomorphic, tufted, arching, thinly coriaceous, not gemmiferous. Stipe up to 15 cm, black, sparsely set with brown scales c. 2 mm long. Lamina up to 12 × 7 cm, deeply 2-pinnatifid, oblong-acute in outline, basal pinnae slightly reduced; pinnae up to 5 × 1.5 cm, elongate-trapeziform in outline, glabrous on both sides, deeply pinnatifid into narrowly oblong lobes with irregularly toothed apices; veins obscure; rhachis black, with narrow greenish wings in the upper part, glabrous except for a few scales similar to those on the stipe. Sori up to 1 cm long, linear; indusium entire.

Notes

Distinguished from other taxa by its relatively short, deeply bipinnatifid, oblong, acute fronds.

Derivation

Habitat

Shade in evergreen forest, on rocks, near waterfalls and in beds of seasonal rivulets.

Distribution worldwide

See African distribution.

Distribution in Africa

Dem. Republic of Congo, Zambia.

Growth form

Lithophytic, terrestrial.

Literature

  • Kornas, J. (1979) Distribution and ecology of the Pteridophytes in Zambia. Polska Akademia Nauk Wydzial II Nauk Biologicznych. Pages 97 - 98.
  • Roux, J.P. (2001) Conspectus of Southern African Pteridophyta.Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report, 13 Page 163.
  • Roux, J.P. (2009) Synopsis of the Lycopodiophyta and Pteridophyta of Africa, Madagascar and neighbouring islands. Strelitzia 23, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. Page 82.
  • Schelpe, E.A.C.L.E. (1967) New taxa of Pteridophyta from South East Tropical Africa.Boletim da Sociedade Broteriana, Sér. 2, 41 Page 206.
  • Schelpe, E.A.C.L.E. (1970) Pteridophyta.Flora Zambesiaca, 0 Page 183.
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