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Astripomoea polycephala
ASTRIPOMOEA polycephala (Hall. f.) Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1963) Author: B. VERDCOURT (East African Herbarium)
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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DISTR. T3 not known elsewhere
Erect herb; stems extremely densely covered with patent long-rayed stellate hairs. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 9 cm. long, 2.8 cm. wide, acute at the apex and cuneate at the base, borne on the peduncles at or beyond the middle, coarsely hairy above and beneath, the leaf-surface clearly visible beneath the indumentum; petioles 5–8 mm. long. Inflorescences very numerous, lateral, ± capitate and several- to many-flowered; peduncle 1.5–6 cm. long; bracts large, ovate, acuminate, up to 2.5 cm. long and 1.6 cm. wide, subscarious, hairy outside, with 7–9 ascending dark and conspicuous veins. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 1.5 cm. long and 3.5 mm. wide, hairy. Corolla mauve, about 4 cm. long. Capsule subglobose, about 7 mm. tall, glabrous.
Astripomoea sp. a.
ASTRIPOMOEA sp. A. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1963) Author: B. VERDCOURT (East African Herbarium)
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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DISTR. T6 not known elsewhere
Shrub up to 3 m. tall; rootstock unknown; stems erect, branched above, yellow-tomentose. Leaves ovate, 12 cm. long, ± 6.5 cm. wide, rather acute at the apex, truncate or subcordate at the base, green and pubescent above, densely grey-tomentose beneath; petiole about 1 cm. long. Inflorescences terminal at the ends of the branchlets, forming a long corymbose arrangement. Sepals very small, ovate, 3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Corolla mauve, narrowly funnel-shaped, 2.4 cm. long. Capsule globose, 9 mm. in diameter, glabrous.
ASTRIPOMOEA tubiflora (Hall f.) Verdc. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1963) Author: B. VERDCOURT (East African Herbarium)
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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DISTR. K1 not known elsewhere but will probably occur in Ethiopia and Somali Republic (S.)
Perennial herb; stems erect, shrubby, up to 0.4 m. tall (fide Hall. f.), at first minutely stellately tomentose, later glabrous. Leaves suborbicular, about 3.5–7 cm. long, 3.5–7 cm. wide, acute, cordate at the base, widely and obtusely sinuate-dentate on the margin, stellately pubescent on both surfaces; petiole about 2–6 cm. long. Inflorescences 3–5-flowered; peduncle axillary, solitary, 3–15 mm. long : pedicels 8–15 mm. long; bracts large, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, up to 1.8 cm. long and 7 mm. wide. Outer sepals the shorter, ovate-lanceolate, 12 mm. long; inner sepals elliptic-oblong, 1.7–2 cm. long and 7 mm. wide, obtuse or emarginate. Corolla white; tube 7.5–11 cm. long, 3 mm. wide; limb dimensions not ascertainable, but stellately pubescent outside on the fasciae. Capsule globose, 12 mm. in diameter, glabrous. Seeds trigonous, tomentose.
Ataenidia
ATAENIDIA Gagnep. [family MARANTACEAE]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1952) Author: E. MILNE-REDHEAD
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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Herbs with rhizome. Stems erect or spreading, branched, bearing one inflorescence and several leaves. Petiole sometimes long (up to 9 dm.), the part directly below the leaf-blade calloused; blade elliptic, asymmetric. Inflorescence terminal, much branched, very condensed, the branches with few nodes and with up to 4 two-flowered cymules at each node, subtended by a wide sheathing bract which does not enclose the part of the inflorescence above it, persistent; each cymule backed by a two-nerved prophyll; mesophylls present. Cymule subsessile with the flowers ± side by side but opening at different times; fleshy bracteoles absent. Outer staminodes 2, petaloid; spur-like appendage to hooded staminode absent. Ovary 3-locular, pubescent. Fruit indehiscent, 1–3-seeded. Seed with an aril.
Ataenidia conferta (Benth.) Milne-Redh. [family MARANTACEAE]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1952) Author: E. MILNE-REDHEAD
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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DISTR. U2, 4 Gold Coast to Belgian Congo and Angola
Herb with short rhizome and tufted habit. Stems up to 6 dm. long. Leaves with a petiole up to 9 dm. long, but often less; calloused part of petiole up to 5 cm. long; blade elliptic, asymmetric, antitropic, up to 48 cm. long, acuminate, ± rounded at the base, often tinged reddish below. Inflorescence one per stem, appearing to be axillary, surrounded by up to 6 leaves, much branched, the branches congested with short internodes, subtended by broadly elliptic obtuse or acute strongly imbricate bracts; cymules about 4 at each node, enclosed in a similar broadly elliptic bract about 2.5 cm. long; bracts various shades of red, held vertically, horizontally or more or less inverted, depending on their position in the inflorescence; cymules sessile; ovary pubescent. Flowers pale pink or pale purple, sometimes white, about 2 cm. long. Fruit ellipsoid, obscurely lobed if more than one-seeded, about 9 mm. long and 6 mm. in diameter, not fleshy, with the withered perianth persisting; seed as in Fig. 1/6A, p. 3, brown with a whitish aril. Fig. 1/6 and 6A, p. 3.
Athrixia
ATHRIXIA Ker-Gawl. [family COMPOSITAE]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 315, (2002) Author: H.J. BEENTJE
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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Fourteen species in tropical and southern Africa and Madagascar.
Perennial herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, sessile, with revolute margins. Capitula heterogamous, radiate, solitary or few together; phyllaries multiseriate, the outermost recurved; receptacle flat, naked. Florets: ray florets purple to white, 1-seriate, often with staminodes; disc florets yellow, 5-lobed, anthers sagittate, style branches obtuse, dorsally with hairs. Achenes oblong, sparsely hairy; pappus of barbellate bristles in two rows.
ATHRIXIA rosmarinifolia (Walp.) Oliv. & Hiern [family COMPOSITAE]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 315, (2002) Author: H.J. BEENTJE
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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Perennial herb or subshrub 0.2–1.2 m high with one to several stems, much branched, erect or less often straggling, from a woody rootstock; stems grey-tomentellous and glandular. Leaves sessile, lanceolate or linear, 1–6 cm long, 0.1–0.4 cm wide, base acute, margins revolute, apex acute and mucronate, white-tomentellous beneath, araneose-puberulous and glandular above but glabrescent. Capitula 6–10 mm long, heterogamous, solitary or in few-headed cymes, these united in many-headed lax leafy corymbs; stalks of individual capitula 2–6 mm long; phyllaries pale green with dark tips, lanceolate to linear, 1.5–7.5 mm long, acute, pubescent. Ray florets mauve, pink or purple, 8–23, tube cylindric, 2.8–3.3 mm long, ray elliptic, 3.5–7.5 mm long, 1.2–1.6 mm wide, slightly glandular-hairy, style 4–4.3 mm long; disc florets yellow or orange-yellow, 16–94, tube cylindric, 4.3–5 mm long, lobes 0.2–0.4 mm long, anthers 2.5–2.7 mm long, style 4.7–6 mm long. Achenes cylindric, 1–1.5 mm long, proximally with a few hairs; pappus of 9–12 bristles 4.5–5 mm long, barbellate, and an outer row of 14–20 shorter bristles to 0.5 mm long. Fig. 93 (page 455).
ATHRIXIA rosmarinifolia var. rosmarinifolia [family COMPOSITAE]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 315, (2002) Author: H.J. BEENTJE
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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DISTR. U 1, 3; K 2–5; T 2, 4–7
Leaves 1–6 cm long, 0.1–0.4(–1) cm wide.
ATHRIXIA subsimplex Brenan [family COMPOSITAE]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 315, (2002) Author: H.J. BEENTJE
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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DISTR. T 7
Woody herb, 0.3–0.5 m high, hardly branched, single-stemmed?; called stoloniferous by Brenan; stems brown, grey-tomentose, densely leafy. Leaves linear, 0.5–4 cm long, 0.1–0.2 cm wide, porrect, base slightly widened, margins revolute, apex acute and mucronate, sparsely pubescent or glabrous above, white-tomentose beneath. Capitula 8–12 mm long, heterogamous, solitary or in few-headed leafy corymbs, rarely up to 20 heads together; stalks of individual capitula 2–5 mm long; phyllaries with dark tips, 2–8 mm long, pubescent. Florets: ray florets mauve, 14–30, tube cylindrical, 4.3–4.7 mm long, ray 6–7 mm long, 1.8–2.5 mm wide, style 4–5.3 mm long; tube florets orange-yellow, 60–80, tube cylindric, 5–6 mm long, lobes 0.3–0.5 mm long, anthers ± 2.5 mm long, style 5.5–7 mm long. Achenes cylindric, 1.3–1.7 mm long, with some basal hairs; pappus of barbellate bristles 4.5–5.5 mm long with an outer series of small bristles to 0.7 mm long.
Athroisma
ATHROISMA DC. [family ]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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11 species in Africa, Madagascar and E Asia.
Perennial herbs or subshrubs. Leaves alternate, simple or dissected. Capitula in dense heads of heads, the glomerules, disciform or discoid, the glomerules arranged in synflorescences or solitary; phyllaries 0–2 per capitulum; receptacle paleate. Capitula with 2 filiform female florets and few to many hermaphrodite disc florets. Anthers caudate. Achenes slightly flattened; pappus absent or occasionally a ring of connected twin-hairs.
Athroisma gracile subsp. gracile [family ]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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DISTR. K 1, 3, 4, 6; T 1, 2 not known elsewhere
Perennial herb 0.1–0.6 m high. Leaves sessile, linear to narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate, 2–7.5 cm long, 0.1–0.5 cm wide, margins entire or with a few teeth. Paleae 2.5–3.5 mm long. Florets white, pink or pale mauve. Achenes ellipsoid to globose, 1–1.5 mm long, 0.5 mm across, smooth; pappus absent or of small hairs.
Athroisma gracile (Oliv.) T.Eriksson subsp. psylloides [family ]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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DISTR. U 3; K 4, 6, 7; T 2, 3
Annual or perennial herb 0.2–1 m high. Leaves sessile or subsessile, linear to elliptic, 2.5–12 cm long, 0.1–2.5 cm wide, margins entire or dentate to serrate. Paleae 3–4 mm long. Flowers white (pink in bud). Achenes obovoid, 1–1.5 mm long, 0.5–1 mm across, tuberculate or rugose; pappus absent or of hairs.
Athroisma gracile (Oliv.) Mattf. [family ]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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Perennial or rarely annual herb 0.1–1 m high, usually much branched; base of stem woody; young branches glabrous. Leaves linear to elliptic or obovate, 2–12 cm long, 0.1–2.5 cm wide, base attenuate, margins entire to dentate or serrate, apex acute to acuminate, glabrous; basal veins 1–3. Glomerules solitary and terminal, 9–16 mm in diameter, with 20–50 capitula; phyllaries absent; paleae 2.5–4 mm long. Florets white, pink or purple, female florets absent; disc florets 8–22, 1.5–2.5 mm long, glandular. Achenes ellipsoid, obovoid or almost globose, 1–1.5 mm long, slightly hairy, without glands; pappus absent or of short hairs. Fig. 146 (page 717).
Athroisma gracile cufod. x boranense
Athroisma gracile Cufod. x boranense [family ]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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DISTR. K 1, 4, 7; T 2 not known elsewhere
Annual or perennial herb or subshrub 20–40 cm high; young branches densely pubescent. Leaves sessile, narrowly ovate, elliptic or obovate, 2–8 cm long, 0.6–3 cm wide, base attenuate, margins serrate or subentire, apex acute to acuminate, sparsely hairy, glandular, 3-veined from base. Glomerules solitary and terminal on small leafy branchlets, 11–20 mm in diameter; phyllaries 3–3.5 mm long; paleae 3.5–4 mm long. Florets white or slightly pink because of pink anthers, female florets 2 or absent, 1.5–2 mm long; disc florets 2 mm long. Achenes obovoid to ellipsoid, 1–1.5 mm long, slightly hairy and with or without glands; pappus absent.
Athroisma hastifolium Mattf. [family ]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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DISTR. K 6; T 2 not known elsewhere
Annual or perennial herb, 15–60 cm high, the base slightly woody; branches densely pubescent, usually glandular. Leaves triangular to ovate, 3–6.5 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, base truncate to almost hastate to almost attenuate, margins serrate, apex acute to acuminate, pubescent, glandular, 3-veined from base; petiole 10–25 mm. Glomerules solitary but branches close together may give an impression of 2–6 together, each 13–20 mm in diameter, with 20–40 capitula; phyllaries 3–4 mm long; paleae 4–5 mm long. Florets white or slightly pink, female florets 2, 2–2.5 mm long, glandular; disc florets 10–15, 2.5–3 mm long, glandular. Achenes ovoid to ellipsoid, 1–1.5 mm long, slightly hairy, without glands; pappus absent.
Athroisma inevitabile T.Eriksson [family ]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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DISTR. U 1–3; T 4
Annual herb 20–80 cm high; young branches glabrous. Leaves linear, elliptic, narrowly ovate or narrowly obovate, 3.5–10 cm long, 0.3–3 cm wide, base attenuate, margins serrate to subentire, apex acuminate to acute, glabrous; 3 main veins from base; petiole absent or up to 15 mm long. Glomerules solitary and terminal, 9–15 mm in diameter; phyllaries absent; paleae 3 mm long. Florets white, rarely pale mauve, female florets absent; disc florets 1.5–2 mm long. Achenes obovoid or ellipsoid, 1 mm long, slightly hairy and glandular near the base and apex; pappus absent or of a ring of a few hairs 0.1 mm long.
Athroisma pusillum T.Eriksson [family ]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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DISTR. K 7 not known elsewhere
Annual herbs 25–50 cm high; young branches almost glabrous. Leaves narrowly triangular, 2–6 cm long, 0.7–1.5 cm wide, base shallowly cordate, margins dentate near base, apex acuminate, glandular, 5-veined from base; petiole 10–20 mm long. Glomerules solitary on short lateral branches, 5–9 mm in diameter, with 35–45 capitula; phyllaries absent; paleae 2 mm long. Florets pale mauve, female florets absent; disc florets 9–15, 1.5 mm long, glandular. Achenes ellipsoid, 1 mm long, slightly hairy, without glands; pappus absent.
Athroisma stuhlmannii O.Hoffm. [family ]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part Part 3, page 547, (2005) Author: H. Beentje, C. Jeffrey & D.J.N. Hind
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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DISTR. K 5; T 1, 2, 5
Annual herb 15–90 cm high; young branches glabrous. Leaves narrowly ovate to narrowly obovate, 3.5–8.5 cm long, 0.5–2.5 cm wide, base attenuate, margins serrate, apex obtuse to acute, glabrous; 3 main veins from base; petiole absent or up to 17 mm long. Glomerules solitary at the nodes, sessile, 9–18 mm in diameter; phyllaries absent; paleae 2.5–4 mm long. Florets white or slightly pink because of pink anthers, female florets absent; disc florets 1.5–2.5 mm long. Achenes obovoid, 1–1.5 mm long, slightly hairy and glandular near the apex; pappus a ring of basally connected hairs 0.1 mm long.
Athyrium
ATHYRIUM Roth [family WOODSIACEAE]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2003) Author: BERNARD VERDCOURT
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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About 180 species, cosmopolitan but mostly in the north temperate zone.
Rhizome branched, creeping or erect, often ± fleshy, with dense non-peltate scales. Fronds tufted or closely spaced. Stipe sulcate, often pink. Lamina 1–3-pinnate to 4-pinnatifid, rarely simple (not in Africa), mostly glabrous; veins free (save in one non-African species). Sori superficial, mostly J-shaped or U-shaped (but round or oblong in many European species) and furthest end crossing the vein to which the sorus is attached; indusium present and fimbriate or rudimentary or even lacking (not in Africa).
ATHYRIUM lewalleanum Pic. Serm. [family WOODSIACEAE]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2003) Author: BERNARD VERDCOURT
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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DISTR. T 4
Rhizome long-creeping, slender; scales pale brown or dark-marked, triangular, 0.2–1.2 mm long, 0.3–0.4 mm wide, acuminate, cordate at the base, mixed with multicellular hairs. Fronds few, paired or solitary, 15–40 cm tall; stipe 12–24.5 cm long, minutely pubescent or ± glabrous or with few scales at base. Lamina ± triangular-hastate in outline, 11.5–22 cm long, 12–26 cm wide, with scattered flattened white multicellular hairs, essentially trifid, the apical part pinnate with 12 or more pairs of pinnae; pinnae lanceolate, up to 5 cm long, 1.8 cm wide, attenuate at the apex, deeply pinnatifid with ± 10 pairs of pinnatifid segments about 2–7 mm wide; lateral parts similar to apical but with lowest basiscopic pinna well developed, up to 10 cm long; rachis shortly pubescent. Sori round, ± 1 mm in diameter, 1–10 per segment; indusium sub-reniform, fixed on one side only, persistent or ± disintegrating and scarcely visible.
ATHYRIUM rondoense Verdc. [family WOODSIACEAE]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2003) Author: BERNARD VERDCOURT
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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DISTR. T 8 only known from the type
Rhizome creeping with blackish or black-veined clathrate scales ± 1.5 mm long; fronds single, 15–40 cm tall; stipe slender, 10–20 cm long with few scales and dense very short hairs. Lamina up to 20 cm long, 15 cm wide, tripartite, the parts ± confocal, each simply pinnate but pinnae very deeply divided so as to appear bipinnate; main parts broadly lanceolate in outline up to 18 cm long, 6 cm wide, acuminate but not long-caudate at the apex; each part with 6–9 pairs of pinnae up to ± 5 cm long, 2 cm wide, the apical ones reduced, toothed only at the apex, running together and narrowly decurrent into each other resembling a series of fish-tails; lower pinnae deeply divided into ± 6 elliptic lobes, the largest ± 15 mm long, 8 mm wide, ± entire to bluntly or subacutely lobed or toothed; main lobes of largest pinnae decurrent, separated by narrowly winged midrib 1–2 mm wide. Sori 1–4 per pinna-lobe, ± 1 mm wide; indusium fimbriate and hairy.
ATHYRIUM scandicinum (Willd.) Presl [family WOODSIACEAE]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2003) Author: BERNARD VERDCOURT
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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Rhizome erect, ± fleshy, 5–8 mm wide but the branches forming a caudex up to 2.5 cm wide; rhizome scales brown, lanceolate-attenuate, 7–10 mm long, 1–2 mm wide. Fronds tufted, 0.15–2 m tall; stipe usually reddish or pink when living, 7.5–55 cm tall, glabrous save for scales at base but young stipes of undeveloped fronds often scaly throughout. Lamina ovate-lanceolate in outline, 20–50 cm long, 10–34 cm wide, acute to acuminate-attenuate at the apex, 2–3-pinnate with ± 18 pairs of pinnae, the basal pair somewhat reduced; pinnae lanceolate in outline, acuminate to caudate at the apex, 1.5–20 cm long, 0.8–8 cm wide, with 10–20 pairs of pinnules; pinnules oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 1–5 cm long, 0.3–2 cm wide, sometimes cut to the base into secondary pinnules, the lamina then distinctly 3-pinnate but often only 2-pinnate-pinnatifid, the pinnules crenate to divided into narrow lobes; pinnule-lobes or secondary pinnules 3–10 mm long, 1–7 mm wide; soft spinules up to 1 mm long often present where wings of rhachis or rhachilla are interrupted by pinnule-bases and some short indumentum sometimes present. Sori oblong, curved or J-shaped, up to 2 mm long, 5–7 per pinnule-lobe or secondary pinnule; indusium shortly to deeply fimbriate or subentire (fide Schelpe).
ATHYRIUM scandicinum (Bak.) Verdc. subsp. newtonii [family WOODSIACEAE]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2003) Author: BERNARD VERDCOURT
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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DISTR. U 2, 4; K 3–5; T 2–4, 6, 7
Pinnule-lobes or secondary pinnules ovate or oblong, typically shortly and obtusely crenate.
ATHYRIUM schimperi Fée [family WOODSIACEAE]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2003) Author: BERNARD VERDCOURT
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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DISTR. U 1; K 3; T 1 (see note) 4, 7
Rhizome creeping, 6 mm in diameter, with reddish brown lanceolate and acuminate scales 7 mm long, 1 mm wide but often some much narrower. Fronds closely spaced, up to ± 1 m tall; stipe dark brown at base, 14–38 cm long, glabrous but with scales similar to rhizome scales at base. Lamina oblong-lanceolate in outline, 23–70 cm long, (6–)10–28 cm wide, acute to acuminate, virtually to quite bipinnate, the pinnules mostly narrowly decurrent; pinnae in 15–20 pairs, lanceolate in outline, 4–18 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide, attenuate, the basal pair usually markedly smaller and distant; rhachis straw-coloured; pinnules in 7–18 pairs, narrowly oblong, 5–22 mm long, 2–8 mm wide, sharply serrate-dentate or deeply lobed and lobes serrate. Sori oblong, curved or J-shaped, 1–1.5 mm long, 1–7 per pinnule-lobe and 14–70 per pinnule; indusia pale brown, membranous, erose. Fig. 3 (page 9).
Athyrium sp.
ATHYRIUM sp. [family WOODSIACEAE]
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2003) Author: BERNARD VERDCOURT
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
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DISTR. T 7
Rhizome erect with spreading roots; scales chestnut, lanceolate, 3 mm long, 1 mm wide, attenuate. Fronds tufted, 16–20 cm tall; stipe 5–6 cm long, scaly at base. Lamina oblong-lanceolate in outline, 9–12 cm long, 4–5 cm wide with 10–15 pairs of pinnae; pinnae oblong in outline, 1–2.5 cm long, 0.3–1.3 cm wide, subacute and not attenuate at apex, with 4–5 pairs of pinnules and short apical lobed part; pinnules oblong-ovate, up to about 7 mm long, 5 mm wide, 3–5-lobed and ± crenate, with sparse flattened trichomes beneath. Sori one per pinnule, about 1 mm long; indusia deeply fimbriate.
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