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Pteridium aquilinum

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Identification
Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn [family DENNSTAEDTIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Pteris latiuscula
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  • Pteris campestris
  • Pteris feei

Flora

Entry for PTERIDIUM aquilinum (L.) Kuhn [family ]
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, (1999) Author: B. Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
PTERIDIUM aquilinum (L.) Kuhn [family ], in von der Decken, Reisen Ost-Afr. 3 (3): 11 (1879); Hieron. in P.O.A. C: 78 (1895); V.E. 2: 47 (1908); Sim, Ferns S. Afr., ed. 2: 264, t. 134 (1915); F.D.- O.A.: 48 (1929); R.M. Tryon in Rhodora 43: 12 (1941); U.O.P.Z.: 260 (1949); Tardieu in Mém. I.F.A.N. 28: 67 (1953); Alston in Estudos Ensarios Doc. Junta Invest. Ci. Ultramar. 12(3): 14 (1954); Tardieu, Fl. Madag. 5(1): 66 (1958); Alston, Ferns W.T.A.: 33 (1959); P.G. Taylor, British Ferns & Mosses: 92, fig. 18 (1960); Tardieu, Fl. Cameroun 3, Ptérid: 96, t. 12/5–6 (1964) & Fl. Gabon 8, Ptérid: 71, t. 12/5–6 (1964); Ivens, E. Afr. Weeds: 200, fig. 100 (1967); Verdc. & Trump, Common Poisonous Pl. E. Afr.: 200 (1969); Schelpe, F.Z., Pterid.: 88 (1970) & Expl. Hydrobiol. Bassin L. Bangweolo & Luapula, 8(3), Ptérid.: 47 (1973) & C.F.A., Pterid.: 72 (1977); Kornaś, Distr. Ecol. Pterid. Zambia: 82, map 50B (1979); Schelpe & Diniz, Fl. Moçamb., Pterid.: 88 (1979); W. Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr.: 208 (1983); Schelpe & N.C. Anthony, F.S.A., Pterid.: 83 (1986); J.E. Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 103 (1990); Faden in U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 24 (1994). Type: Filix femina, Fuchs, Hist.: 596, mispr. 569 (1542) (lecto.)
Information
Gregarious terrestrial fern with rhizome 2.5 cm diameter when fresh, ± 7 mm wide when dry. Fronds borne at intervals of 1 cm or more, 0.3–1.8(–3) m tall, up to 0.6 m wide, coiled spirally when young, with dense chestnut hairs 1–1.5 mm long; stipe 15–40(–90?) cm long; lamina triangular to oblong-ovate in outline; pinnae ovate-triangular, up to 40 cm long, 15 cm wide, acute, the basal pinnae from half to as long as the lamina; pinnule segments linear to oblong, bluntly short- to long-caudate, the larger deeply pinnatifid into obtuse narrowly oblong lobes ± glabrous or thinly pubescent to densely pubescent or tomentose above; rachis and secondary rachises pale brown, eventually glabrous. False indusium membranous, ± 0.5 m wide, ciliate.
Notes
Extensive synonymy is given by Schelpe (1970).

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