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Gleichenia umbraculifera

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Name

Identification
Gleichenia umbraculifera (Kunze) Moore. [family GLEICHENIACEAE ] (stored under name); null
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Flora

Entry for Gleichenia umbraculifera Kunze Moore [family GLEICHENIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 0, Part 0, page 46, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Gleichenia umbraculifera Kunze Moore [family GLEICHENIACEAE], Ind. Fil.: 384 (1862).—Sim, Ferns S. Afr. ed. 2: 298, t. 157 (1915). Type from S. Africa.
Mertensia umbraculifera Kunze [family GLEICHENIACEAE], in Linnaea, 18: 114 (1844). Type as above.
Sticherus umbraculiferus Kunze Ching [family GLEICHENIACEAE], in Sunyatsenia, 5: 285 (1940). Type as above.
Information
Rhizome up to 8 mm. in diam., brown, creeping, covered with oppressed lanceolate subentire or ciliate light-brown scales, with fronds spaced 2–10 cm. apart. Stipe up to 1.05 m. long and up to 6 mm. in diam., erect, stramineous, darker at the base, weakly sulcate, usually naked but sometimes with a few light-brown lanceolate ciliate or laciniate scales up to 2 mm. long. Fronds usually reniform in outline with up to 5 successive levels of false dichotomies in each lateral branch system arising from each side of a terminal axial bud; all branches of the lateral branch system bearing closely spaced foliar segments. Aborted apical buds and branch axes when young bearing light-brown variously laciniated lanceolate scales up to 1.5 mm. long. Pinnules (foliar segments) up to 3.5 x 0.3 cm., linear, entire, with broadened completely sessile bases, apices rounded to narrowly acute, green above, usually glaucous beneath, eventually glabrous. Sori superficial, consisting of groups of 3–4 sporangia.
Habitat
Around boulder bases in grassland and on stream-banks in partial shade
Altitude range
1220–1830 m.
1830
1220
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Inyanga, Pungwe source, 20.x.1946, Wild 1475 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa

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