Crepidomanes africanum (H.Christ) Ebihara & Dubuisson
Synonyms |
Trichomanes africanum H. Christ |
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Description |
Rhizome long creeping, with a row of black hairs. Fronds spaced, membranous. Stipe 0.5-1 cm long, broadly winged above. Lamina tripinnatifid, deltoid in outline; pinnae about 10 pairs, contiguous, forming a right angle with the broadly winged rachis, sessile, ovate-obtuse, margin incised-flabellate, 1-1.5 x 0.9 cm; ultimate segments linear, apex rounded, almost all segments of the top of the fertile frond being soriferous, color more or less greyish green in the dry. Sori with campanulate, marginalized indusia, with dilated opening; long-exserted receptacle. |
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Derivation | |
Habitat | On trees and rocks in forest, altitude c.1675m |
Distribution worldwide | See African distribution. |
Distribution in Africa |
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Dem. Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea (incl. Bioko), Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan and South Sudan, Togo. |
Growth form |
Epiphytic, lithophytic. |
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