Compilation
Aspidium anomophyllum

3 Images see all

Previous
Next

Name

Identification
Aspidium anomophyllum Zenker [family DRYOPTERIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Cyrtomium caryotideum (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) C.Presl [family PTERIDOPHYTA ] Cyrtomium micropterum (Kunze) Ching [family PTERIDOPHYTA ]
Related name
  • Aspidium anomophyllum
  • Cyrtomium caryotideum
  • Cyrtomium micropterum

Flora

Entry for Cyrtomium caryotideum (Kunze) C.Chr. var. micropterum [family DRYOPTERIDACEAE]
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, (2007) Author: J.P. Roux, Monika Shaffer-Fehre & Bernard Verdcourt
Names
Cyrtomium caryotideum (Kunze) C.Chr. var. micropterum [family DRYOPTERIDACEAE], in Am. Fern J. 20: 52 (1930) (as micropteris). Type: C.Presl, Tentamen pteridographiae t. 2, fig. 26 (1936), iconotype
Aspidium caryotideum Hook. & Grev. [family DRYOPTERIDACEAE], Icon. Fil. 1: t. 69 (1828)
Cyrtomium micropterum (Kunze) Ching [family DRYOPTERIDACEAE], Icon. Fil. Sin. 3: t. 127 (1935) as ‘ micropteris’; J.P. Roux, Conspect. southern Afr. Pterid.: 131 (2001)
Aspidium anomophyllum Kunze forma micropteris [family DRYOPTERIDACEAE], in Linnea 24: 278 (1851), as ‘ microptera’
Phanerophlebia caryotidea (Kunze) Tardieu var. micropteris [family DRYOPTERIDACEAE], Fl. Madag. 1: 326 (1958); Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr.: 455 (1983); Faden in U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 35 (1994)
Information
Pinnae 6–12, with a single blunt auricle; terminal pinna equivalent to the other pinnae; lamina coriaceous with a serrate margin.
Range
DISTR. U 2; K 5; T 2, 3, 6 Ethiopia, Malawi; Madagascar to southern China and southern India
Altitude range
1400–2100 m
Distribution
KENYA Kericho District Sotik, Kibajet Estate, Sep. 1949, Bally 7441! & Sotik, above Sisis R., May 1960, Bally 12255!KENYA N Kavirondo District Isiukhu R. on Kambiri–Vihiga road, Dec. 1969, Faden & Rathbun 69/2105!TANZANIA Kilimanjaro, hill behind Kilimanjaro Timbers, July 1993, Grimshaw 93/419!TANZANIA Lushoto District Camphor Forest, Sep. 1981, Mtui & Sigara 57!TANZANIA Morogoro District Nguru Mts above Maskati, Mar. 1988, Bidgood et al. 541!UGANDA Ankole District Bunyamguru, July 1939, Purseglove 859!
Notes
The typical variety differs in having 3–6 pinnae pairs, with 1–2 acute auricles; the terminal pinna is the largest; lamina thin, margin dentate with aristate teeth.USES. None recorded for our area. CONSERVATION Widespread; least concern (LC)

Related Materials