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Grammitis coriacea

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Identification
Loxogramme lanceolata (Sw.) C.Presl [family POLYPODICAEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Price,M.G., Grammitis coriacea Kaulf. ex Spreng. [family UNKNOWN ]
Related name
  • Grammitis coriacea
  • Loxogramme lanceolata
  • Gymnogramme lanceolata

Flora

Entry for Loxogramme lanceolata Sw. C. Presl [family POLYPODIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 0, Part 0, page 144, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Loxogramme suberosa Christ [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Ann. Mus. Cong., Bot., Sér. 5, 3: 37 (1909). Type from Congo.
Polypodium suberosum Christ C. Chr. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Ind. Fil., Suppl.: 62 (1913). Type as above.
Loxogramme africana Copel. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Philipp. Journ. Sci. 11: 45 (1916). Type from Angola.
Loxogramme lanceolata Sw. C. Presl [family POLYPODIACEAE], Tent. Pterid.: 215 (1836) reimpr. in Abh. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss. Ser. 4, 5: 215 (1837). TAB. 48 fig. E. Type from Mascarene Is.
Grammitis lanceolata Sw. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Schrad., Journ. Bot. 1800, 2: 18 (1801). Type as above.
Grammitis coriacea Kaulf. ex Spreng. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in L., Syst. Veg., ed. 16, 4: 41 (1827). Type from Mascarene Is.
Antrophyum lanceolatum Sw. Bl. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Fl. Jav. Fil.: 84, t. 36 (1829). Type as for Loxogramme lanceolata.
Selliguea lanceolata Sw. Fée [family POLYPODIACEAE], Mém. Fam. Foug. 5: 177 (1852). Type as for Loxogramme lanceolata.
Selliguea coriacea Kaulf. ex Spreng. Fée [family POLYPODIACEAE], loc. cit. Type as for Grammitis coriacea.
Polypodium coriaceum Kaulf. ex Spreng. Mett. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Abh. Senckenb. Nat. Ges. 2: 112 (1856) reimpr. in Mett., Farngatt., Polypod.: 112 (1857). Type as above.
Polypodium loxogramme Mett. [family POLYPODIACEAE], loc. cit., reimpr. loc. cit.—Sim, Ferns S. Afr. ed. 2: 281, t. 146 (1915). Type from Mascarene Is.
Gymnogramma lanceolata Sw. Hook. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Sp. Fil. 5: 156 (1864). Type as for Loxogramme lanceolata.
Gymnogramma abyssinica Bak. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Syn. Fil.: 517 (1874). Type from Ethiopia.
Information
Rhizome widely creeping, with reddish-brown hairy roots and with fronds spaced up to 5 cm. apart, and with dark-grey-brown clathrate narrowly lanceolate acuminate pseudoserrate rhizome-scales. Stipe stramineous to purplish-brown, up to 3 cm. long. Frond stipitate, carnose-coriaceous. Lamina up to 33 x 2.8 cm., simple, narrowly elliptic, entire to irregularly sinuate; midrib and veins immersed. Sori up to 2.3 x 0.25 cm. at maturity, linear, set at an angle of about 15º to the midrib, overlapping to less than 1/4 of their length.
Habitat
Epiphytic or lithophytic in deep shade in forest
Range
widespread in tropical Africa
Altitude range
820–1830 m.
1830
820
Distribution
Mozambique MS Gorongosa Mt., Gogogo Peak, 5.vii.1955 Schelpe 5513 (BM; BOL).Malawi S Mlanje Mt., Luchenya Plateau, 12.vii.1946, Brass 16805 (K; SRGH).Malawi C Mt. Dedza, 27.ii.1964, Wild 6336 (SRGH).Zambia E Nyika Plateau, 25.x.1958, Robson 346 (K).Zambia W Mwinilunga Distr., Matonchi R., 19.ix.1937, Milne-Redhead 2859 (K).Mozambique N Ribáuè Mt., 19.vii.1962, Schelpe & Leach 6918 (BOL).Malawi N Nyika Plateau, 17.viii.1946, Brass 17287 (K).Zimbabwe E Inyanga Distr., Pungwe Gorge, 25.vii.1957, Chase 6665 (BM; BOL; K; SRGH).Zambia N Abercorn Distr., Lake Chila, 15.xi.1952, White 3665 (K).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa
Madagascar
Mascarene Is.

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