Species

Bolbitis salicina (Hook.) Ching

Photo: C. Jongkind
Guinea

Synonyms	Acrostichum salicinum Hook. Campium salicinum (Hook.) Copel. Leptochilus salicinus (Hook.) C.Chr.
Common name
Description	Rhizome shortly creeping; rhizome scales lanceolate in outline, notched at the base, cells dark-walled. Fronds subcoracious, closely spaced. Stipe strawcoloured, grooved, naked, 8-14 cm long. Lamina lanceolate in outline, 18-20 x 10 cm, pinnate. Terminale pinnae resembling laterale ones, sometimes proliferous at the apex, decurrent on the rhachis closely winged at its extreme top. Laterale pinnae 7-17 alternating pairs, linear-lanceolate in outline, 7-8 x 0.5-1 cm, apex long tapering, base symmetrical, oblique; veins forming one or two rows of areoles in addition to the costal areoles. Fertile fronds of the same size as the sterile fronds, pinnae with long petioles.
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Derivation
Habitat	Forest, exposed rocks.
Distribution worldwide	See African distribution.
Distribution in Africa	Cameroon , Congo , Dem. Republic of Congo , Equatorial Guinea (incl. Bioko), Gabon , Ghana , Guinea , Ivory Coast , Liberia , Nigeria , Sierra Leone .
Growth form	Lithophytic.
Literature	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 116. Tardieu-Blot, M.-L. (1964) Ptéridophytes vol.3.Flore du Cameroun, Page 321. Does not include description, drawing only (Includes a picture). Thardieu-Blot, M.L. (1964) Ptéridophytes vol.8.Flore du Gabon, Page 189.