Entry for PTERIS mildbraedii Hieron. [family ]
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2002) Author: BERNARD VERDCOURT
Names
PTERIS mildbraedii Hieron. [family ], in E.J. 53: 415 (1915); Tardieu in Mém. I.F.A.N. 28: 77, t. 12, figs. 4–5 (1953); Alston, Ferns W.T.A.: 42 (1959); Tardieu, Fl. Cameroun 3: 165, t. 23, figs. 4–5 (1964) & Fl. Gabon 8: 112 (1964); Schelpe, Contrib. Bolus Herb. 1: 63 (1969). Type: Cameroon, 58 km E of Kribi, Mildbraed 5986 (B, holo.)
PTERIS biaurita Bonap. var. africana [family ], Not. Ptérid. 1: 61 (1915). Type: Congo (Brazzaville), Benito, Reutlinger s.n. (P, holo.)
PTERIS sp. (sub P. atrovirens) [family ], ; Schippers in Fern Gaz. 14: 185 (1993)
Notes
I am not entirely certain of the identity of these with the W African plants since there is slight anastomosis of veins in the ultimate segments in at least one of the specimens cited above (3695), rather more pinnae and only traces of murication on the stipe. Schelpe suggests P. dubia Kuhn (in van der Decken’s Reisen 3 (3) Bot.: 71 (1879)). Type: Comoro Is., Mwali [Johanna], Hildebrandt 1763 (K!, iso.) could be conspecific with P. mildbraedii and is a much older name. I have only seen the isotype and a specimen from I. Mayotte, Barkly s.n. and am not convinced; the Comoro material has the ultimate segments narrowly acute or attenuate. They are clearly very closely allied.