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Anogramma caespitosa

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Paratype of Anogramma caespitosa Pic.Serm. [family POLYPODIACEAE]

Paratype of Anogramma caespitosa Pic.Serm. [family POLYPODIACEAE]

Type of Anogramma caespitosa Pic. Ser. [family PTERIDACEAE]

Holotype of Anogramma caespitosa Pic. Ser. [family ADIANTACEAE]

Paratype of Anogramma caespitosa Pic.Serm. [family POLYPODIACEAE]

Paratype of Anogramma caespitosa Pic. Ser. [family ADIANTACEAE]

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Identification

Anogramma caespitosa Pic. Ser. [family ADIANTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Pichi Sermolli R., 1971

Flora

Entry for ANOGRAMMA leptophylla (L.) Link. [family ADIANTACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Flora of Tropical East Africa

Reference Sources

Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2002) Author: BERNARD VERDCOURT

ANOGRAMMA leptophylla (L.) Link. [family ADIANTACEAE], Fil. Sp.: 137 (1841); V.E. 2: 36 (1908) (sphalm. ‘ Adenogramme’); Sim, Ferns S. Afr., ed. 2: 193, t. 109 (1915); F.D.-O.A. 1: 35 (1929); Reimers in N.B.G.B. 12: 188 (1934); Tardieu, Fl. Madag. 5(1): 120, t. 17/6–9 (1958); P. Taylor, Brit. Ferns & Mosses: 97, fig. 20 (1960); R.M. Tryon in Contr. Gray Herb. 194: 81 (1964); Pic. Serm. in Webbia 21: 497, t. 1, map 1 (1966): Launert, Prodr. Fl. SW. Afr. 5: 1 (1969); Schelpe in Contr. Bolus Herb. 1: 47 (1969) & F.Z., Pterid.: 99, t. 32/1–3 (1970): Faden in U.K.W.F.: 36 (1974); Schelpe, C.F.A., Pterid.: 80 (1977); W. Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr.: 220, t. 154, map (1983); Dostál in Hegi, Illustr. Fl. Mitt. Europa ed. 3, 1(1): 113, fig. 89 (map), 90 & 91 (1984); Schelpe & N.C. Anthony, F.S.A., Pterid.: 93, fig. 27/3, map 72 (1986); J.E. Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 114, t. 18/1, figs. 115, 115a, 115b (1990); Schippers in Fern Gaz. 14: 182 (1993); Faden in U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 19 (1994). Type: Spain, Portugal or Provence (LINN 1251.56!, lecto.)

Polypodium leptophyllum L. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 1092 (1753)

Asplenium leptophyllum (L.) Sw. [family ASPLENIACEAE], Obs. Bot.: 403 (1791)

Osmunda leptophylla (L.) Sav. [family OSMUNDACEAE], in Encycl. Méth. 4: 657 (1797)

Asplenium geminaria Bory [family ASPLENIACEAE], Ess. Isles Fortun.: 313 (1803). Type: Canary Is., Tenerife, Broussonet s.n. (P, holo.)

Acrostichum leptophyllum (L.) Lam. & DC. [family PTERIDACEAE], Fl. Franç. 2: 565 (1805)

Grammitis leptophylla (L.) Sw. [family GRAMMITIDACEAE], Syn. Fil.: 23, 218, t. 1, fig 6 (1806)

Gymnogramma leptophylla (L.) Desv. [family ADIANTACEAE], in Ges. Naturf. Berl. Mag. 5: 305 (1811)

Hemionitis leptophylla (L.) Lag. [family ADIANTACEAE], Gen. & Sp.: 33 (1816)

Gymnogramma novae-zelandiae Colenso [family ADIANTACEAE], in Tasm. Journ. Nat. Sci. 2: 165 (1846). Type: New Zealand, about 16 km from Auckland, between Manukau Bay & Tamaki Creek, Colenso s.n. (WELT, holo., K!, iso.)

Tarachia geminaria (Bory) C. Presl [family ASPLENIACEAE], Epim. Bot.: 79 (1851)

Dicranodium leptophyllum (L.) Newman [family ], Hist. Brit. Ferns ed. 3: 13 (1854)

Gymnogramma schwackeana H. Christ [family ADIANTACEAE], in Schwacke, Pl. Nov. Mineiras 2: 18 (1900) & in Bull. Herb. Boiss., sér. 2: 365 (1902). Types: Brazil, Serra de Ouro Preto, Schwacke 7564, 9389, 11302 & Serra de Ibitipoca, Schwacke 12304 & Rio Preto, Magalhães Gomes 2811 (?BAS, syn.)

Pityrogramma leptophylla (L.) Domin [family ADIANTACEAE], in Publ. Fac. Sci. Univ. Charles 88: 9 (1928)

Anogramma caespitosa Pic. Serm. [family ADIANTACEAE], in Webbia 27: 429, fig. 14, 15 (1973) & in B.J.B.B. 53: 238 (1983); Schippers in Fern Gaz. 14: 182 (1993). Type: Tanzania, Kilimanjaro, between Bismarck Hut and Peter’s Hut, Pichi Sermolli 5149 (Herb. Pichi Sermolli, 20661 holo., K!, iso.)

Plant 2.5–10(–23) cm tall, annual with few to several (1–6 usually but up to 20–30 in Africa) erect, membranous or herbaceous tufted fronds arising from the minute rhizome; scales pale, linear, ± 1 mm long, entire; stipes chestnut, ± shiny, glabrous or with few small scales at base; lamina oblong-ovate to narrowly triangular, up to 7 cm long, 2.8(–5) cm wide, 2–3-pinnatifid or rarely pinnate in very small plants; pinnae ovate-triangular in outline; ultimate segments broadly to narrowly cuneate, emarginate or shallowly lobed, glabrous on both surfaces; rhachis chestnut or straw-coloured, narrowly winged above, glabrous. Fig. 9 (p. 42).

DISTR. U 2, 3; K 3, 4; T 2, 3 (fide Peter), 4, 7 also Europe, Mediterranean, Asia Minor,, also Mexico to Ecuador and Peru, Brazil

(1200–)1850–3750 m

KENYA Trans-Nzoia District Cherangani foothills, 22 Sept. 1949, Maas Geesteranus 6347!;KENYA Nakuru District 6 km W of Nakuru, 5 Sept. 1952, Bogdan 3599!;KENYA Nanyuki District 18 km NE of Nanyuki, Cedarvale Farm, 22 Oct. 1977, Gilbert 4893!TANZANIA Arusha District S slopes of Mt Meru, Leighton s.n . !;TANZANIA Moshi District Kilimanjaro, path from Bismarck Hut to Peter’s Hut, 25 Feb. 1953, Wood 944!;TANZANIA Mpanda District Mahali Mts, Sisaga, 27 Aug. 1958, Jefford et al. 1801!;TANZANIA Mbeya District Ipinda, May 1953, Eggeling 6505!UGANDA Kigezi District Virunga Mts, N foot of Muhavura, N’kanda, 23 Nov. 1954, Stauffer 938!;UGANDA Mbale District Elgon, Buginyanya, 28 July 1917, Snowden 512! and between Bukwa and Mutosyet, 6 July 1971, Lye 6406!

Distribution (external)

Congo (Kinshasa)

Although the type and some other specimens from Kilimanjaro, Mt Meru, Mt Kenya and Karisimbi are distinctive in their caespitose habit with many (20–30 in some plants) stems, after looking through material from the whole world I am not confident of the status of A. caespitosa. There are specimens even from these areas which are very similar to somewhat tufted plants collected in Europe; a number of intermediates is not easily placed. I prefer to follow Reimers who, after a study of material throughout its range (including Volkens 1529 and Schlieben 4849 which Pichi Sermolli cites under his A. caespitosa), concluded one species was involved. Material referable to A. caespitosa occurs at a high altitude. Johns (Pterid. Trop. E.A.: 22 (1991)), treats it as var. caespitosa Pic. Serm. but I can find no reference to such a combination. R. Wingfield considered (in his unpublished list of Tanzanian Pteridophytes) that A. caespitosa was a robust form linked by intermediates. Peters records a sight record from the W Usambaras, between Kingo and Kwai but I have seen no material. Curiously the species is omitted from Hedberg, Afroalpine Vascular Plants.