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Cyclosorus patens

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Identification
Cyclosorus patens (Fee) Copel. [family THELYPTERIDACEAE ] (stored under name); null
Related name
  • Nephrodium poiretii
  • Dryopteris patens
  • Thelypteris patens
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  • Cyclosorus patens
  • Thelypteris kunthii
  • Nephrodium albescens
  • Polypodium pubescens
  • Nephrodium kunthii
  • Aspidium patens

Flora

Entry for Pneumatopteris unita (Kunze) Holttum [family THELYPTERIDACEAE]
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, (2006) Author: BERNARD VERDCOURT
Names
Pneumatopteris unita (Kunze) Holttum [family THELYPTERIDACEAE], in Blumea 21: 304 (1973) & in J. S. Afr. Bot. 40: 155 (1974); Schelpe & Diniz, Fl. Moçamb.: 216 (1979); Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr: 399, fig. 301 (1983); Schippers in Fern Gaz. 14: 197 (1973); Faden in U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 32 (1994). Type: South Africa, Durban (Port Natal), Gueinzius s.n. (LZ, holo.†; HBG, iso, BOL, photo.)
Gymnogramma unita Kunze [family ADIANTACEAE], in Linnaea 18: 115 (1844)
Goniopteris madagascariensis Fée [family THELYPTERIDACEAE], Gen. Fil.: 251 (1852). Type: Madagascar, Goudot s.n. (RB, holo.?)
Goniopteris patens Fée [family THELYPTERIDACEAE], Gen. Fil.: 253 (1852). Type: South Africa, Natal, Gueinzius s.n. (RB, holo?)
Goniopteris silvatica Pappe & Rawson [family THELYPTERIDACEAE], Syn. Fil. Afr. Austr.: 39 (1858), nom. illegit. Type as for Pneumatopteris unita
Polypodium unitum (Kunze) Hook. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Spec. Fil. 5: 5 (1863), non L. nom. illegit.
Dryopteris silvatica (Pappe & Rawson) C.Chr. [family DRYOPTERIDACEAE], Ind. Fil.: 292 (1905); Sim. Ferns S. Afr. ed. 2: 100, t. 15 (1915), nom. illegit.
Dryopteris albidipilosa R.Bonap. [family DRYOPTERIDACEAE], Notes Ptérid. 15: 9 (1924). Type: Kenya, Fort Hall District: near Thika, Mearns 1123 (P, holo.; K!, photo.; BM!, US, iso.)*
Dryopteris silvatica C.Chr. var. amplectens [family DRYOPTERIDACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 9: 176 (1924). Type: Kenya, Mt Kenya, W Kenya Forest Station, R.E. & T.C.E. Fries 1217 (?S, holo.; BM!, iso.)
Cyclosorus patens (Fée) Copel. [family THELYPTERIDACEAE], Gen. Fil.: 143 (1947); Alston, Ferns W.T.A.: 62 (1959); Tardieu, Fl. Cameroun 3: 250, t. 36/1–2 (1964)
Cyclosorus albidipilosus (R.Bonap.) Tardieu [family THELYPTERIDACEAE], in Not. Syst. 14: 345 (1952) & Mém. I.F.A.N. 28: 123, t. 21/3 (1953)
Thelypteris madagascariensis (Fée) Schelpe [family THELYPTERIDACEAE], in J. S. Afr. Bot. 31: 267 (1965) & F.Z. Pterid.: 196 (1970); Schelpe & Anthony, F.S.A,: Pterid.: 209, fig. 69/2 (1986); Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 262, t. 43/6, illustr. 62/265, 265 a, b, c (1990)
Information
Rhizome erect. Fronds tufted, often large, 0.9–3.6 m tall, covered with mucilage when young and coiled; gemmae present on rachis at apex of frond. Stipe pale brown, 22–75 cm long, glabrous. Lamina lanceolate in outline, 0.6–1.5 m long, 20–50 cm wide, simply pinnate, the basal pinnae hardly reduced; basal pinnae auricled; pinnae linear-oblong, 11.5–28 cm long, 1.5–3.3 cm wide, rather shallowly lobed to 1/4–1/3 to costa; lobes oblong, somewhat falcate, 4–10 mm long, 3–7 mm wide, glabrous, save for scattered short hairs on costa etc. above; about 4 pairs of veins anastomosing below the sinus either in a membrane or extending from the sinus or below it. Indusium absent. Fig. 10, p. 33.
Range
DISTR. U 2; K 3–5, 7; T 2, 3, 5–7
Altitude range
(700– fide Schippers) 1450–2500 m
Distribution
KENYA Naivasha District S Kinangop, Sasamua Dam Pipeline Road, 11 Dec. 1960, Verdcourt et al. 3033!KENYA Meru District Nyambeni Tea Estate, 8 Oct. 1960, Verdcourt & Polhill 2930!KENYA Kericho District SW Mau Forest, 16 km SSE of Kericho, along Kiptigat/Chepkuisi R., 12 June 1972, Faden et al. 72/347!TANZANIA Moshi District Kilimanjaro, Mweka route, 27 July 1968, Bigger 2036!TANZANIA Lushoto District W Usambaras, Shagayu Forest Reserve, 2.5 km SW of Shagein peak, 22 Oct. 1986, Pocs 86207/A!TANZANIA Rungwe District Livingstone Mts, Isalola R. above Bumbigi, 5 Mar. 1991, Gereau & Kagambo 4226!UGANDA Toro District Kazingo, Bwamba Pass, 11 Jan. 1932, Hazel 172!UGANDA Ankole District 5–7 km NW of sawmill W of Rubuzigye, 19 Sept. 1969, Lye et al. 4129! & W Ankole, Buhweju, Kaakara–Mpija, 9 July 1988, Rwaburindore 2652!
Distribution (external)
Liberia
Ghana
Cameroon
Congo (Kinshasa)
Sudan
Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
South Africa (Natal)
Madagascar

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