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Dryopteris wallichiana

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Identification
Aspidium crinitum M.Martens&Galeotti [family POLYPODIACEAE ] Verified by Palacios-Rios, M., Dryopteris wallichiana (Spreng.) Hyl. [family POLYPODIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Aspidium wallichianum
  • Aspidium paleaceum
  • Aspidium patentissimum
  • Aspidium crinitum
  • Dryopteris wallichiana

Flora

Entry for Dryopteris wallichiana Spreng. Hylander [family ASPIDIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 0, Part 0, page 218, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Dryopteris wallichiana Spreng. Hylander [family ASPIDIACEAE], in Bot. Notis. 1952: 352 (1953). Type from Nepal.
Aspidium paleaceum D. Don [family ASPIDIACEAE], Prodr. Fl. Nepal.: 4 (1825) non Sw. (1806). Type from Nepal.
Aspidium wallichianum Spreng. [family ASPIDIACEAE], in L., Syst. Veg. ed. 16, 4: 104 (1827). Type as for Dryopteris wallichiana.
Aspidium donianum Spreng. [family ASPIDIACEAE], in L., tom. cit., Suppl.: 320 (1827). Type from Nepal.
Dryopteris paleacea Hand.-Mazz. [family ASPIDIACEAE], in Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, 58: 100 (1908). Type as for Aspidium paleaceum.
Dryopteris paleacea var. madagascariensis C. Chr. [family ASPIDIACEAE], [in Acad. Malgache, Cat. Pl. Madag. Ptérid.: 27 (Feb. 1932) nom. nud.] in Dansk Bot. Ark. 7: 53, t. 11 fig. 5–9 (June 1932). Type from Madagascar.
Dryopteris doniana Spreng. Ching [family ASPIDIACEAE], in Sunyatsenia, 6: 3 (1941). Type as for Aspidium donianum.
Information
Rhizome up to 16 cm. high and 8 cm. in diam., erect, forming a short caudex with fronds arranged in cycad fashion and with dark-brown linear attenuate rhizome-scales up to 3 x 0.3 cm. with some filamentous marginal outgrowths. Frond suberect, arching, firmly membranacous. Stipe up to 19 cm. long and 1 cm. in diam. at the base, matt-brown, with dense dark-brown subentire attenuate scales up to 1 x 0.36 m., narrowly elliptic in outline, very deeply 2-pinnatifid, acute-acuminate, gradually decrescent at the base, pinnae subsessile. Pinnae up to 18 x 2.7 cm. at the base, narrowly oblong-attenuate, widest at the base, very deeply pinnatifid with oblong truncate serrate lobes up to 1.2 x 0.5 cm.; the basal pair of lobes auriculate, darker green above than below, glabrous on both surfaces except for scattered linear attenuate pale-brown scales up to 2.5 mm. long on the costae and sometime costules on both surfaces. Rhachis matt-brown, densely set with persistent dark-brown linear attenuate scales up to 4 mm. long. Sori up to 1.2 mm. in diam., circular, up to 10 per pinna lobe set about 1/2-way between the costule and the margin; indusium c. 1 mm. in diam., glabrous, entire, membranous.
Habitat
Known only from a single locality in continental Africa, in shade of Widdringtonia
Altitude range
1980 m.
1980
1980
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Inyangani Mt., source of Pungwe R., 1.v.1960, Chase 7337 (BOL; K; LISC; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Madagascar
Asia

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