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Blechnum capense

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Identification
Isotype of Lomaria scabra Kaulf. [family BLECHNACEAE ] Blechnum laevigatum Cav. [family BLECHNACEAE ] Blechnum capense Domin [family BLECHNACEAE ] Blechnum camfieldii Tindale [family BLECHNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Thomas Carrick Chambers,
Related name
  • Blechnum capense
  • Lomaria capensis
  • Blechnum indet.
  • Onoclea capensis
  • Blechnum camfieldii
  • Acrostichum sorbifolium
  • Lomaria procera var. stenophylla
  • Blechnum laevigatum
  • Lomaria procera
  • Osmunda capensis
  • Blechnum pacificum
  • Lomaria scabra

Flora

Entry for Blechnum capense L. Schlechtend. [family BLECHNACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 0, Part 0, page 235, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Blechnum capense L. Schlechtend. [family BLECHNACEAE], Adumbr.: 34, t. 18 (1825). Type from S. Africa (Cape Prov.).
Osmunda capensis L. [family BLECHNACEAE], Mant. Pl. Alt.: 306 (1771). Type as above.
Onoclea capensis L. Sw. [family BLECHNACEAE], Syn. Fil.: 111 (1806). Type as above.
Lomaria capensis L. Willd. [family BLECHNACEAE], in L., Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 5: 291 (1810). Type as above.
Spicanta capensis L. Kuntze [family BLECHNACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 821 (1891). Type as above.
Information
Rhizome up to 2 cm. in diam., creeping, with tufted fronds and with brown ovate-acuminate entire rhizome-scales up to 1 cm. long. Frond arching, firmly herbaceous. Stipe up to 47 cm. long, nitid, castaneous at least in the lower 1/2, glabrous at maturity. Sterile lamina up to 63 x 21 cm., imparipinnate, oblong-acute in outline, lower pinnae not reduced; pinnae up to 13.5 x 1.7 cm., minutely serrate, glabrous on both surfaces except for scattered brown ovate-lanceolate scales up to 3 mm. long along the costa dorsally. Fertile lamina up to 40 x 13 cm., narrowly oblong-acute in outline, lower pinnae not reduced; pinnae up to 12 x 0.4 cm., undulate, narrowly linear-acuminate, petiolate, slightly auricled at the base, glabrous except for brown scales along the costa dorsally. Sori linear, almost marginal; indusium brown, c. 1 mm. broad.
Habitat
Streambanks in forest
Altitude range
1525–1770 m.
1770
1525
Distribution
Mozambique MS Gorongosa Mt., Gogogo Peak, 6.vii.1955, Schelpe 5533 (BM; BOL).Malawi S Mlanje, 1891, Whyte (BM).Zimbabwe E Umtali Distr., Stapleford Forest Reserve, 29.xi.1951, Chase 4268 (BM; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa

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