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Anemia schimperiana

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Anemia schimperiana C.Presl [family SCHIZAEACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Mickel,J.T.,
Related name
  • Anemia flexuosa
  • Anemia angolensis
  • Anemia schimperiana
  • Anemia tomentosa

Flora

Entry for ANEMIA schimperiana C. Presl [family SCHIZAEACEAE]
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, (2000) Author: B. VERDCOURT, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
ANEMIA schimperiana C. Presl [family SCHIZAEACEAE], Suppl. Tent.: 84 (1846); C. Chr. in Dansk Bot. Arkiv 7: 176 (pro parte), t. 71, fig. 4 (1932); Tardieu, Fl. Madag. 8: 7 (1952); Pic. Serm. in Webbia 9: 650, fig. 4 (1954); Mickel in Iowa State J. Sc. 36: 409, map (1962); Faden in U.K.W.F.: 27 (1974) & in U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 16 (1994). Type: Ethiopia, Tigré, Gafta, Schimper 1203 (PRC, holo., BW, BR, FT, G, K!, M, P, P, W, iso.)
ANEMIA tomentosa (C. Presl) T. Moore var. schimperiana [family SCHIZAEACEAE], Ind. Fil. 2 : 70 (1857)
ANEMIA aethiopica Pic. Serm. [family SCHIZAEACEAE], in Webbia 9: 654, fig. 5 (1954); Mickel in Iowa State J. Sci. 36: 410, t. 21, fig. A (1962). Type: Somalia, Gherire, area between El Marà and Monte Ellot, near El Marà, Reghini 3 (FT, holo.)
Information
Rhizome horizontal, up to 1.5 cm thick, densely covered with long multicellular orange or ferruginous hairs. Fronds tufted, 15–30 cm long about 1/3–1/2 of which is stipe. Stipes (4–)5–10(–15) cm long, (1–)1.5–2 mm diameter, slightly to distinctly flattened, pilose to densely hairy. Sterile lamina ovate-triangular, 6–16 cm long, 7–12 cm wide, bipinnate or bipinnatifid to tripinnatifid near base and bipinnatifid at apex, sparsely to densely ferruginous hairy; pinnae with 7–9 pairs of pinnules, the segments ovate to ovate-oblong, adnate. Fertile pinnae erect, slightly longer than the sterile lamina; petiolules 3.5–5 cm long, the pinnae 5 mm long; segments glabrescent to sparsely pubescent; rachis hairy.
Range
DISTR. K 1, 4
Altitude range
400–900 m
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province 30 km on Ramu–Malka Mari road, 8 May 1978, Gilbert & Thulin 1593! & 48 km on Ramu–El Wak road, 10 May 1978, Gilbert & Thulin 1623!;KENYA Kitui District 1.6 km S of Tana R. on Embu–Kangonde road, 8 May 1960, Napper 1642!
Distribution (external)
; Congo (Kinshasa)
Sudan
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Somalia
Notes
Some authors have considered A. wightiana Gardner as a synonym of A. schimperiana and C.F. Reed (Bol. Soc. Brot. Ser. II, 2: 162 (1948)) has treated it as a variety under the name Hemianemia schimperiana (C. Presl) C.F. Reed var. wightiana. Pichi Sermolli distinguishes his A. aethiopica from A. schimperiana by its greater size, stipes and rachises densely covered with long rusty red hairs, stronger stipe shorter than the blade, both stipe and blade much flattened and deeply furrowed at the margins, ovate-deltoid blade which is larger, thinner, tripinnate rather than bipinnate, has more numerous pinnules, longer fertile pinnae and spores with striae irregular and anastomosing here and there. Despite this impressive list it is difficult to assign new collections and I cannot satisfactorily distinguish them. They are certainly not “sharply distinct”. Faden named Napper 1642 A. schimperiana but Pichi Sermolli had previously named it A. aethiopica. Certainly the two Gilbert & Thulin sheets are very densely rufous pilose. Mickel keeps the two separate. P. Edwards kindly prepared a series of scanning micrographs of spores from a range of Kew material which gave no clear evidence one way or the other – material identified by Pichi Sermolli as A. aethiopica, e.g. Napper 1642, had spores identical with those from the type of A. schimperiana. Peter in F.D.-O.A.: 21 (1929) cites as A. tomentosa Sw. his numbers 29227 from Umtali and 30927, and mentions Kondeland: Rumbira Tal bei Langenburg (now Tukuyu).

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