Crepidomanes frappieri (Cordem.) J.P. Roux
Synonyms |
Vandenboschia frappieri (Cordem.) Pic.Serm. |
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Description |
Rhizome filiform, less than 0.5 mm in diameter, covered in dark brown trichomes to 1.5 mm, some of these branched. Fronds spaced up to 2 cm apart, frond axes not proliferous. Stipe dark green, blackish at base, 2–25 mm long, winged in upper part, with scattered minute clavate hairs. Lamina ovate to linear in outline, 2–14 x 0.8–3 cm, flabellately divided or 2–3-pinnatifid, ultimate segments linear; longitudinal drying folds present; glabrous except for some minute hairs on the veins. Sori terminal on basal acroscopic pinnule lobes, sometimes also on (sub)terminal pinna lobes; indusium tubular, 2–2.5 mm long, 1.5 times as long as wide, winged, mouth bilabiate, usually not spreading; receptacle exserted. |
Notes | We follow African Plant database and J.P.Roux, who consider the species from Africa and Réunion as the same species. Flora Tropical East Africa has C. frappieri as from Réunion and C. ramitrichum from Africa. |
Derivation | frappieri: named after Frappier, with no further certain information. This might be Charles Frappier de Mont Benoist (1813-1885) or Alphonse Frappier (fl. 1853-1895), 2 French botanists. |
Habitat | Moist deeply shaded montane forest, near water, or rock faces by falls. |
Distribution worldwide | Africa, Madagascar, Réunion. |
Distribution in Africa |
Burundi, Dem. Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania , Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. |
Growth form |
Epiphytic, lithophytic. |
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