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Cheilanthes inaequalis

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Identification
Cheilanthes inaequalis Kunze [family PTERIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
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Entry for CHEILANTHES inaequalis (Kunze) Mett. [family ADIANTACEAE]
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, (2002) Author: BERNARD VERDCOURT
Names
CHEILANTHES inaequalis (Kunze) Mett. [family ADIANTACEAE], in Abh. Senck Nat. Ges. 3: 68, t. 3, fig. 4 (1859) & Mett. Farngatt. 5 Cheilanthes : 24, t. 3, fig. 4 (1859); Tardieu in Mém. I.F.A.N. 28: 89, t. 14, fig. 3 (1953); Schelpe in Contrib. Bolus Herb. 1: 74 (1969) & F.Z., Pterid.: 126 (1970) & C.F.A., Pterid.: 103 (1977); W. Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr.: 257 (1983); N.C. Anthony in Contr. Bolus Herb. 11: 33 (1984); Andrews, Rev. Fern Genus Cheilanthes : 32 (1984); Schelpe & N.C. Anthony, F.S.A., Pterid: 115 (1986); J.E. Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 129, t. 20/3, fig. 30/130a, b (1990); Faden in U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 17 (1994). Type: South Africa, Gauteng, Macalisburg, Burke s.n. (LZ†, holo., BM, K!, iso.)
Information
Rhizome shortly creeping, with bright orange-brown scales 15 mm long, 0.8 mm wide. Fronds 5–30, tufted, 7–32 cm long; stipe 2.5–20 cm long, purple-brown, hairy throughout and with dense tuft of scales at base similar to those on rhizome; lamina lanceolate to oblong or triangular-elliptic, 3.5–20 cm long, 2–9(–11) cm wide, pinnate; pinnae in ± 11–14 pairs, lanceolate in outline, 1.5–3.5 cm long, 1 cm wide, deeply pinnatifid, the ultimate segments oblong, 2–22 mm long, 2–25 mm wide, again crenate or pinnatifid, obtuse, pilose beneath or tomentose with dense matted hairs (sometimes a very few branched), at first white but eventually ferruginous, subglabrous to thinly pubescent on upper surface; venation obscure. Sori marginal, discrete but forming a continuous soral line at maturity; indusium continuous or irregularly discontinuous, narrow, ciliate, membranous.

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