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Cheilanthes hirta

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Name

Identification
Notholaena capensis Spreng. [family PTERIDACEAE ] Verified by Anthony, N.C., Cheilanthes hirta Sw. [family PTERIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Mohria unrecorded
  • Cheilanthes multifida
  • Cheilanthes hirta
  • Cheilanthes dinteri
  • Cheilanthes parviloba
  • Notholaena capensis
  • Cheilanthes hyaloglandulosa
  • Adiantum indet.
  • Adiantum caffrorum
  • Cheilanthes induta

Flora

Entry for CHEILANTHES hirta Sw. [family ADIANTACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2002) Author: BERNARD VERDCOURT
Names
CHEILANTHES hirta Sw. [family ADIANTACEAE], Syn. Fil.: 128, 329 (1806); Hieron. in V.E. 2: 40 (1908); Sim, Ferns S. Afr., ed. 2: 227, t. 110 (1915); F.D.-O.A.: 40 (1929); Schelpe in Contr. Bolus Herb.: 72 (1969); Launert in Prodr. Fl. SW. Afr. 7: 2 (1969); Schelpe, F.Z., Pterid.: 125 (1970) & C.F.A., Pterid.: 102 (1977); W. Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr.: 261, fig. 5 (1983); N.C. Anthony in Contr. Bolus Herb. 11: 68, t. 14 (1984); Schelpe & N.C. Anthony, F.S.A., Pterid.: 121, fig. 37/1 (1986); Andrews, Rev. Fern Genus Cheilanthes : 30, fig. 9, t. 5, 14 (1986); J.E. Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 135 (1990); Schippers in Fern Gaz. 14: 180 (1993); Faden in U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 17, t. 169 (1994). Type: Mauritius, Groendal s.n. (S, lecto.)
Information
Rhizome very shortly creeping, with some linear-lanceolate scales with black in middle at the base, and with pale chestnut margins and apices, 3.5–8 mm long and many entirely pale orange-chestnut, about 10 mm long or more (the black striped ones may not be present in all herbarium specimens). Fronds 12–30, densely tufted, 20–60(–100) cm tall; stipe, rhachis and costulae densely covered with spreading pale chestnut hairs up to 2 mm long; stipe 4–11 cm long with dense pale orange-chestnut scales at base; lamina linear-oblong (to narrowly elliptic in cultivated specimens), 16–30 cm long, 2–7.5 cm wide, 2-pinnate with 15–26 pairs of oblong-lanceolate pinnae, 0.8–4(–10) cm long, 0.6–2 cm wide; pinnules in 7–10(–15) pairs, up to 8 mm long, 4 mm wide, thinly hairy on both surfaces, pinnatifid or lowest segments ± free; venation obscure. Sori small, on incurved edges of pinnule lobes, discrete but appearing confluent; indusium small, pale, membranous, entire to erose, ciliate (sometimes absent fide Schelpe).

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