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Hymenophyllum fumarioides

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Isotype of Hymenophyllum fumarioides Bory ex Willd. [family PTERIDOPHYTA]

Hymenophyllum capense Schrad. [family HYMENOPHYLLACEAE]

Syntype of Hymenophyllum natalense Bosch [family HYMENOPHYLLACEAE]

Hymenophyllum rarum R.Br. [family HYMENOPHYLLACEAE]

Filed as Hymenophyllum fumarioides Willd. [family HYMENOPHYLLACEAE]

Type of Hymenophyllum capense Schrad. [family PTERIDOPHYTA]

Syntype of Hymenophyllum natalense Bosch [family HYMENOPHYLLACEAE]

Type? of Hymenophyllum capense Schrad. [family PTERIDOPHYTA]

Filed as Hymenophyllum capense Schrad. [family HYMENOPHYLLACEAE]

Filed as Hymenophyllum fumarioides Willd. [family HYMENOPHYLLACEAE]

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Identification

Hymenophyllum fumarioides Willd. [family PTERIDOPHYTA ] (stored under name); Verified by Gordon, L.S., 1972 Hymenophyllum tabulare Schrad. [family PTERIDOPHYTA ] Verified by Gordon, L.S., 1972 Hymenophyllum capense Schrad. [family PTERIDOPHYTA ] Verified by Not on sheet,

Flora

Entry for Hymenophyllum capense Schrad. [family HYMENOPHYLLACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Flora Zambesiaca

Reference Sources

FZ, Vol 0, Part 0, page 75, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe

Hymenophyllum capense Schrad. [family HYMENOPHYLLACEAE], in Gött. Gel. Anz. 1818: 919 (1818). Type from S. Africa.

Hymenophyllum natalense Van d. Bosch [family HYMENOPHYLLACEAE], in Ned. Kruid. Archf. 4: 386 (1859). Type from S. Africa.

Hymenophyllum zeyheri Van d. Bosch [family HYMENOPHYLLACEAE], tom cit.: 388 (1859). Type from S. Africa.

Hymenophyllum tabulare Van d. Bosch [family HYMENOPHYLLACEAE], tom. cit.: 397 (1859). Type from S. Africa.

Hymenophyllum fumarioides [family HYMENOPHYLLACEAE], sensu Sim, Ferns. S. Afr. ed. 2: 74, t. 3 fig. 2 (1915).

Hymenophyllum parvum C. Chr. [family HYMENOPHYLLACEAE], in Acad. Malgache, Pl. Madag., Ptérid.: 18 (1932); in Dansk Bot. Ark. 7: 8, t. 2 fig. 1–3 (1932). Type from Madagascar.

Rhizome filiform, creeping, with fronds 0.5–7 cm. apart. Stipe up to 5 cm. long, filiform, narrowly winged for part of its length. Lamina up to 10 x 1.6 cm., usually 2-pinnatifid, lanceolate to narrowly oblong with the lowest pinnae often reduced. Pinnae up to 1 cm. long, entire, bifurcate to pinnatifid into 3–7 entire closely spaced lobes up to 1.5 mm. broad with rounded apices. Sori on acroscopic segments anywhere in the upper 1/2 of the frond, broadly obconic with rounded entire indusial valves 2 mm. broad and with the lamina segments usually dilated about the sorus.

Lithophytic in sheltered rock crevices

Mozambique MS Gorongosa Mt., Gogogo Peak, 4.vii.1955, Schelpe 5495 (BM; BOL).Malawi S Mlanje Distr., 30.vi.1946, Brass 16547 (K).Mozambique Z Gúruè, Serra de Gúruè, 1.x.1941, Torre 3569 (LISC).

Distribution (external)