Species

Anemia - Anemiaceae

Anemia angolensis Alston

Photo: P. Ballings
Zimbabwe

Synonyms	Anemia schimperiana C.Presl var. angustiloba Bonap. Hemianemia schimperiana (C.Presl) C.F.Reed var. angustiloba (Bonap.) C.F.Reed Animia simii Tardieu var. angustiloba (Bonap.) Pic.Serm.
Common name
Description	Rhizome horizontal, 6-15 mm in diameter, densely covered with light to red-brown hairs (up to 5 mm long). Fronds tufted, 15-40 cm, subcoriacious. Stipe 5-20 x 0.1-0.2 cm, straw-coloured, with long hairs. Sterile lamina 7-17 × 4-8.5 cm, ovate-deltate to ovate-oblong in outline, bipinnatifid to tripinnatifid; ultimate segments rounded, adnate, minutely shallowly toothed, sparsely hairy on both surfaces, sessile or with short petiolule. Fertile pinnea tripinnatifid, ultimate segments hairy, petiolules up to 5.5 cm. Sporangia in two rows.
Notes	Similar to A. simii but fertile segments hairy.
Derivation	angolensis: of Angola
Habitat	Forest slopes and woodland, usually by water, rocky ledges, earthbanks in gullies, termite mounds, steep slopes, especially in shady and cool places.
Distribution worldwide	See African distribution.
Distribution in Africa	Angola , Dem. Republic of Congo , Ethiopia , Malawi , Mozambique , Tanzania , Zambia , Zimbabwe .
Growth form	Lithophytic, terrestrial.
Literature	Burrows, J.E. (1990) Southern African Ferns and Fern Allies. Frandsen, Sandton. Page 59. (Includes a picture). Jacobsen, W.B.G. (1983) The Ferns and Fern Allies of Southern Africa. Butterworths, Durban and Pretoria. Pages 176 - 177. (Includes a picture). Kornas, J. (1979) Distribution and ecology of the Pteridophytes in Zambia. Polska Akademia Nauk Wydzial II Nauk Biologicznych. Pages 42 - 43. Lawalrée, A. (1970) Schizaeaceae.Flore du Congo, du Rwanda et du Burundi, Pages 5 - 6. (Includes a picture). 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 51. Roux, J.P. (2001) Conspectus of Southern African Pteridophyta.Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report, 13 Page 52. Schelpe, E.A.C.L.E. (1970) Pteridophyta.Flora Zambesiaca, 0 Page 54. Verdcourt, B. (2000) Schizaeaceae.Flora of Tropical East Africa, Page 6. (Includes a picture).