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Dicranopteris linearis

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Name

Identification
Dicranopteris linearis (Burm.)Underw. [family PTERIDOPHYTA ]
Related name
  • Dicranopteris linearis
Common name
  • yεndoŋ (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KISSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5
  • koye (def. -ei) (SKS) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for DICRANOPTERIS linearis (Burm. f.) Underw. [family GLEICHENIACEAE]
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, (2000) Author: B. Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
DICRANOPTERIS linearis (Burm. f.) Underw. [family GLEICHENIACEAE], in Bull. Torrey Bot. Cl. 34: 250 (1907); Tardieu, Fl. Madag. 7: 4 (1952) & in Mém. I.F.A.N. 28: 34 (1953); Holttum in Reinwardtia 4: 275 (1957) & in Fl. Males., ser. II, 1:33 (1959); Schelpe, F.Z., Pterid.: 50, t. 13 (1970) & in Expl. Hydrobiol. Bassin L. Bangweolo & Luapula, 8(3) Ptérid.: 30, fig. 9 (1973); Faden in U.K.W.F.: 27 (1974); Schelpe, C.F.A., Pterid.: 46, t. 5 (1977); Schelpe & Diniz, Fl. Moçamb., Pterid.: 44 (1979); W. Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr.: 184, t.125, map 30 (1983); Schelpe & N.C. Anthony, F.S.A., Pterid.: 49, fig. 13/3, map 33 (1986); J.E. Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 54, t. 7/7, fig. 51, map (1990); Faden in U.K.W.F., ed. 2: 22 (1994). Type: Java, Santen (G-DEL, lecto.)
Information
Rhizome brown, 1–5 mm in diameter. Fronds (0.1–)1–1.8 m long, spaced 6–20 cm apart, bifurcate to reniform-lunate in outline with 1–3 levels of false dichotomy in each lateral branch-system arising from each side of the terminal bud; indumentum of reddish brown multicellular hairs up to 2 mm long when young, becoming glabrous with age; stipe stramineous to light reddish brown, up to 70 cm long, and up to 4 mm in diameter, glabrous; accessory branches with deeply pinnatifid lamina up to 12 cm long, 4 cm wide, flanking primary and often secondary (rarely tertiary) pseudo- dichotomies; intermediate branch-axes devoid of foliar segments, but sometimes clothed with an evanescent tomentum of matted reddish hairs; stipule-like structures at bases of primary branches ± 1 cm long; aborted apical buds clothed with reddish brown multicellular hairs; foliar segments up to 3(–5) cm long, 0.5 cm wide, linear, sessile, confluent at their broadened bases, apices emarginate, glabrous. Sori superficial, consisting of a single sporangium or groups of 2–10 sporangia. Fig. 3.

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