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Lomaria australis

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Identification
Lomaria australis Link [family BLECHNACEAE ] Verified by [Wikström, J.E.], Blechnum rigidum Sw. [family BLECHNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by [Wikström, J.E.], Blechnum rigidum Sw. [family BLECHNACEAE ] Verified by [Wikström, J.E.], Blechnum punctulatum Sw. [family BLECHNACEAE ] Verified by [Illegible], 1959 Blechnum rigidum Sw. [family BLECHNACEAE ] Verified by [Illegible], 1959 Blechnum australe L. [family BLECHNACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Blechnum rigidum
  • Blechnum australe
  • Blechnum punctulatum
  • Lomaria australis

Flora

Entry for Blechnum australe L. [family BLECHNACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 0, Part 0, page 235, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Blechnum australe L. [family BLECHNACEAE], Mant. Pl. Alt.: 130 (1767).—Sim, Ferns S. Afr. ed. 2: 188, t. 84 (1915).—Launert in Prodr. Fl. SW. Afr.8: 1 (1969). Type from S. Africa.
Lomaria pumila Kaulf. [family BLECHNACEAE], Enum. Fil.: 151 (1824). Type from S. Africa.
Lomaria australis L. Link [family BLECHNACEAE], Fil. Hort. Berol.: 75 (1841). Type as for Blechnum australe.
Mesothema australe L. C. Presl [family BLECHNACEAE], Epim. Bot.: 111 (1851) reimpr. in Abh. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss., Ser. 5, 6: 472 (1851). Type as above.
Blechnopteris australis L. Trevisan [family BLECHNACEAE], in Att. Ist. Veneto, 2, 2: 166 (1851). Type as above.
Struthiopteris australis L. Trevisan [family BLECHNACEAE], op. cit. 3, 14: 572 (1869). Type as above.
Spicanta australis L. Kuntze [family BLECHNACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 821 (1891). Type as above.
Information
Rhizome up to 5 mm. in diam., creeping, with tufted fronds and with dark-brown ovate-lanceolate acuminate entire rhizome-scales up to 5.5 x 1 mm. Frond erect or arching, firmly membranous. Stipe up to 14 cm. long, pale-brown, darker and with scales similar to the rhizome scales about the base. Lamina up to 47 x 12.5 cm. (usually smaller), pinnate, narrowly elliptic to elliptic-oblong in outline, acute or acuminate and with several pairs of basal pinnae reduced. Sterile pinnae up to 6 x 1.1 cm., narrowly to very narrowly oblong, obtuse to acute, mucronate, base somewhat auriculate, subsessile, glabrous or thinly glandular. Fertile pinnae up to 27 x 0.2 mm., linear, mucronate with a dilated auriculate subsessile base. Rhachis stramineous, glabrous or glandular. Sori linear extending almost the length of the fertile pinnae; indusium c. 0.6 mm. broad, brown, membranous, erose.
Habitat
Deeply shaded stream-banks and waterfalls.
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Melsetter Distr., Lessops Pass, 11.i.1947, Fisher 1257 (BM; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa
Madagascar
S. Atlantic Is.

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