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Asplenium protensum

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Identification
Asplenium protensum Not on sheet. [family ASPLENIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Asplenium protensum Schrad. [family ASPLENIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Asplenium psuedohorridum
  • Asplenium pseudohorridum
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  • Asplenium pellucidum
  • Asplenium psuedopellucidum
  • Asplenium protensum

Flora

Entry for Asplenium pellucidum (Hieron.) Schelpe subsp. pseudohorridum [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 pellucidum (Hieron.) Schelpe subsp. pseudohorridum [family ASPLENIACEAE], in Bol. Soc Brot., Sér. 2, 41: 208 (1967) & F.Z. Pteridophyta: 179 (1970); Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 230, map, figs. (1990); Schippers in Fern Gaz. 14, 6: 202 (1993). Type: Tanzania, Lushoto District: Usambara Mts, Nderema, Holst 2253 (B!, ?lecto.; K!, iso.); protolog has list of syntypes, Holst 2253 (B!, syn.), Gonja, 4236 (B!, syn.), Gonja, 4269a (B!, P!, syn.)
Asplenium protensum Hieron. var. pseudohorridum [family ASPLENIACEAE], in P.O.A. C: 82 (1895)
Asplenium pseudohorridum (Hieron.) Hieron. [family ASPLENIACEAE], in E.J. 46: 362 (1911); Johns, Pterid. trop. East Africa checklist: 66 (1991)
Range
DISTR. T 3
Altitude range
600–1050 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Lushoto District Amani, Oct. 1955, Tanner 2248! & Bomole Hill, June 1950, Verdcourt 274! & idem, Mar. 1998, Luke 5249!
Distribution (external)
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Notes
CONSERVATION Widespread; least concern (LC). The typical species is restricted to Mauritius. This taxon resembles A.protensum, but that is always proliferous; and A. friesiorum, but that always has a creeping rhizome.

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