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Asplenium geppii

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Type of Asplenium geppii Carruth. [family ASPLENIACEAE]
Filed as Asplenium geppii Bak subsp. aethiopicum [family ASPLENIACEAE]
Type of Asplenium geppii Carruth. [family ASPLENIACEAE]
Asplenium anisophyllum Kunze [family ASPLENIACEAE]
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Type of Asplenium geppii Carruth. [family ASPLENIACEAE]
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Type of Asplenium geppii Carruth. [family ASPLENIACEAE]
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Identification
Asplenium geppii Carruth. [family ASPLENIACEAE ] (stored under name); Asplenium pachysorum Baker [family ASPLENIACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Asplenium anisophyllum Kunze [family ASPLENIACEAE]
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, (2008) Author: Henk Beentje
Names
Asplenium anisophyllum Kunze [family ASPLENIACEAE], in Linnaea 10: 511 (1836); Schelpe, F.Z. Pteridophyta: 170 (1970); Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 214, map, figs. (1990); Johns, Pterid. trop. East Africa checklist: 61 (1991). Type: South Africa, between Umzimvubu [Omsamwubo] and Umsikaba (Omsamcaba] Rs., Drège s.n. (LZ†, holo.; B!, lecto., B!, BM! (fragm.), K! (fragm.) , iso.) lectotype chosen by Roux, 1986
Asplenium geppii Carr. [family ASPLENIACEAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 2, 2: 269 (1901); F.W.T.A. Pterid.: 56 (1959). Type: Angola, Pungo Andongo, Mata de Pongo, Welwitsch 97 (BM, K, iso.)
Asplenium subauriculatum Hieron. [family ASPLENIACEAE], in E.J. 46: 350 (1911); Pic. Serm. in B.J.B.B. 55: 152 (1985). Types: Cameroon, Lolodorf, Staudt 180 (B!, syn.; web image!) & Congo, Arthington falls, Buttner 194 (B!, syn.; web image!)
Information
Epiphyte or less often terrestrial; rhizome to 2 cm diameter, erect, with pale brown to brown concolorous lanceolate scales 6–12x1.5–3.5 mm, acute to acuminate, margin with thin lobes (‘fimbriate’). Fronds tufted, erect or arching, not proliferous. Stipe matt-purplish-brown, 13–48 cm long, to 4 mm diameter, glabrous except for a few scales at the base similar to those on the rhizome. Lamina ovate to ovate-elliptic, 20–88x8–32 cm, 1-pinnate, with the basal pairs of pinnae somewhat reduced, terminal pinna large and similar to laterals, 5–12x1.6–2.5 cm. Rachis glabrous or with few very narrow scales to 1 mm. Pinnae in 7–20 pairs, narrowly lanceolate and a bit falcate, the largest 5–16x1.5–3 cm, apex acuminate or acute, base truncate and parallel to rachis on the acroscopic side, oblique on the basiscopic side, margin regularly crenate with a vein ending in each crenation, glabrous above but with a few scattered minute branched linear scales on the costae and veins below. Rachis glabrous. Sori many per pinna, at 45° to costa, extending from near the costa to 1/2 way to the margin, 2.5–6 mm long; indusium membranous, to 1.2 mm wide, entire. Fig. 6: 3–4, p. 37.
Range
DISTR. U 2, 4; K 7; T 3, 7
Altitude range
1000–1600 m
Distribution
KENYA Teita District Mbololo Hill, Mraru ridge, July 1969, Faden et al. 69/826! & Kasigau, Bungule route, Nov. 1994, Luke 4184!TANZANIA Pare District Shengena Forest Reserve, Gonja, Feb. 1988, Kisena 358!TANZANIA Lushoto District East Usambaras, May 1926, Peter 40244!TANZANIA Njombe District Lupembe, Apr. 1931, Schlieben 573!UGANDA Bunyoro District Budongo Forest, Nyakafunjo Nature Reserve, Nov. 1996, Hafashimana 101!UGANDA Kigezi District Ishasha Gorge, Nov. 1997, Hafashimana 424!UGANDA Mengo District Mpanga Forest Reserve, 5 km E of Mpigi, Sep. 1969, Faden et al. 69/1004!
Distribution (external)
Angola
Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
South Africa
Madagascar
Notes
CONSERVATION Widespread; least concern (LC). Very similar to A. elliottii except for the terminal pinna in A. elliottii being proliferous. A. boltonii and A. gemmiferum are also close; but are both proliferous; and A. ceii has fewer pinnae which are much darker and glossy. A. anisophyllum Kunze var. aequilateralis Hieron. = A. elliottii.

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