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Huperzia phlegmaria

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Identification
Huperzia phlegmaria (L.)Rothm. [family PTERIDOPHYTA ]
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Flora

Entry for Huperzia phlegmaria (L.) Rothm. [family LYCOPODIACEAE]
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, (2005) Author: B. Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
Huperzia phlegmaria (L.) Rothm. [family LYCOPODIACEAE], in F.R. 54: 62 (1944); Schippers in Fern Gaz. 14: 175 (1993). Type: Malabar and Ceylon, Dillenius, Hist. Musc. t. 61, f. 5 A, B, C (1741) (lecto.)
Lycopodium phlegmaria L. [family LYCOPODIACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 1101 (1753); Hieron. in P.O.A. C: 91 (1895) & in V.E. 2: 74, fig. 72 (1901); F.D.-O.A. 1: 89 (1929); Chr. in Dansk Bot. Arkiv 7: 192 (1932); Alston in Exell, Cat. Vasc. Pl. São Tomé: 96 (1944) & in Mém. I.F.A.N.: 50: 24 (1957) & F.W.T.A. Pterid.: 12 (1959); Tardieu, Fl. Cameroun 3: 15 (1964) & Fl. Gabon 8: 9 (1964); Schelpe in F.Z. Pterid.: 20 (1970)
Urostachys phlegmaria (L.) Herter [family LYCOPODIACEAE], in Bot. Arch. 3: 17 (1923)
Information
Pendulous epiphyte 20–45(–75) cm long, dichotomously branched. Leaves lanceolate, flat, 9–16(–33 fide Schelpe) mm long, 2–3.5(–6 in Ceylon etc.) mm wide, widest near base, narrowly acute at the apex, narrowed or rounded at base then strongly narrowed at extreme base, somewhat coriaceous, loosely imbricate, spreading ± at right angles to stem. Fertile areas strobiliform, very sharply differentiated from the foliage, 3–13(–24) cm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, 1–3 times dichotomously forked; sporophylls ± ovate, 1.5–2 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, only partly covering the sporangia and usually very slightly longer than them. Sporangia ± 1.3 mm wide.
Range
DISTR. U 4; T 3, 6, 7
Altitude range
950–1450 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Lushoto District W Usambaras, Gonja, Sept. 1893, Holst 4279!;TANZANIA Morogoro District Uluguru Mts, N slopes of Bondwa, 2 May 1970, Pócs 6183F!;TANZANIA Iringa District Mwanihana Forest Reserve, above Sanje, 8 Sept. 1984, D.W. Thomas 3654!UGANDA Masaka District Sese Is., Bugala I., Kalangala, 24 Feb. 1945, Greenway & A.S. Thomas 7157!
Distribution (external)
Sierra Leone
Ghana
Cameroon
Gabon
Bioko
Principe
São Tomé
Malawi; Comoro Is
Mascarene Is
Madagascar (see note)
Notes
It seems unlikely Huperzia phlegmaria var. tardieuae (Herter) Tardieu in Adansonia Sér. 2, 10: 18 (1970) & Fl. Madag. 13 & 13 bis: 42, fig. 8/1–4 (1971) is distinct and Tardieu hints as much. I have therefore included Madagascar in the distribution. Eggeling 1576 (in F.D. 1486) from Uganda, Bunyoro District, Budongo Forest, Dec. 1954 found on Entandrophragma utile is sterile but has been named Lycopodium warneckei (i.e. Huperzia warneckei (Nessel) Pic.Serm.) by F. Jarrett. The differences given by Alston (in F.W.T.A. Pterid. and Mém. I.F.A.N. 50) to separate the species of the ‘phlegmaria’ group are slight, and certainly suspect when the immense variation accepted in India and Sri Lanka H. phlegmaria is considered (although several taxa may be confused there), and Dixit, Lycopodiaceae of India: 72 (1988) comments on the ‘variable forms’ which can be easily separated. Eggeling 1576 certainly agrees well with West African material named as Lycopodium warneckei by Alston, and Sierra Leone material has been found on the same Entandrophragma. Without fertile material it is not possible to confirm the identity. H. phlegmaria has been found on Uapaca guineensis.

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