Actiniopteris dimorphaPic.Serm. [family PTERIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi Sermolli, Actiniopteris australis(L.f.) Link [family PTERIDACEAE ] Verified by Herb. Berol.,
Related name
Actiniopteris dimorpha
Actiniopteris australis
Arthropteris pectinata
Flora
Entry for ACTINIOPTERIS dimorpha Pic. Ser. [family ACTINIOPTERIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Rhizome-scales of 2 types: light brown and wholly membranous, or with dark central stripe and light membranous margins. Leaf-blade when dried out forming a right angle with the stipe, the fertile leaves much taller than the sterile; leaf-blades fan-shaped in outline with a ± truncate base, fertile segments longer, narrower, and more acute than the sterile.
Range
N1 Ethiopia, Sudan and southwards to Zimbabwe and MozambiquetheRéunion.
Altitude range
1100–1870 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Godding 99; Gillett & Watson 23694.
Distribution (external)
Comoro Is
Madagascar
Notes
This has sterile leaves similar to those of A. radiata and fertile leaves similar to those of A. semiflabellata. It is a very polymorphic taxon perhaps of hybridogenic origin (see Kornaś & al., op. cit.).
