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Loxogramme africana

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Identification
Loxogramme africana Copel. [family POLYPODIACAE ] Verified by Price, M.G., Loxogramme abyssinica (Baker) M.G.Price [family POLYPODIACAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Loxogramme lanceolata
  • Loxogramme abyssinica
  • Loxogramme africana

Flora

Entry for LOXOGRAMME abyssinica (Baker) M.G. Price [family POLYPODIACEAE]
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, (2001) Author: B. Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
LOXOGRAMME abyssinica (Baker) M.G. Price [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Amer. Fern Journ. 74: 61 (1984); Faden in U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 23 (1994). Type: Ethiopia, Begemder, Reb Valley, Gerra-Abuna-Tekla-Haimanot, Schimper 1445 (K!, holo.)
Gymnogramma lanceolata [family ADIANTACEAE], [sensu HookSp. Fil. 5: 156 (1864) pro parte; Sim, Ferns S. Afr.: 215, t. 78 (1892), non (Sw.) Hook.]
Gymnogramma abyssinica Baker [family ADIANTACEAE], in Hook. & Baker, Syn. Fil. ed. 2: 517 (1874)
Polypodium loxogramme [family POLYPODIACEAE], [sensu Hieron. in P.O.A. C: 87 (1895) & in E.J. 28: 347 (1900) & V.E. 2: 54, fig. 49 (1908); Sim, Ferns S. Afr., ed. 2: 281, t. 146 (1915); F.D.-O.A.: 30 (1929), non Mett.]
Loxogramme suberosa H. Christ [family POLYPODIACEAE], in De Wild. & T. Durand, Ann. Mus. Congo Bot., ser. 5, 3: 37 (1909). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), between Bima and Bambili, Seret 147 (BR, holo.)
Polypodium suberosum (H. Christ) C. Chr. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Ind. Fil. Suppl.: 62 (1913)
Loxogramme africana Copel. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Phil. Journ. Sci. 11: 45, t. 1, fig. 6 (1916). Type: Angola, Pungo Andongo, Mechow 142 (?B, holo.)
Loxogramme lanceolata [family POLYPODIACEAE], [sensu Chiov., Racc. Bot. Miss. Consol. Kenya: 148 (1935); Tardieu, Mém. I.F.A.N. 28: 213 (1953); Alston, Ferns W.T.A.: 48 (1959); Tardieu, Fl. Cameroun 3, Ptérid.: 344, t. 16/8 (1964) & Fl. Gabon 8, Ptérid.: 205 (1964); Schelpe in Contr. Bolus Herb. 1: 94 (1969) & F.Z., Pterid.: 149, t. 48/e (1970) & Expl. Hydrobiol. Bassin L. Bangweolo & Luapula 8 (3), Ptérid.: 67 (1973); Faden in U.K.W.F.: 70 (1974); Schelpe, C.F.A., Pterid.: 116, t. 20/a (1977); Schelpe & M.A. Diniz, Fl. Moçamb., Pterid.: 153 (1979); W. Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr.: 306, fig. 222, map 92 (1983); Pic. Serm. in B.J.B.B. 53: 199 (1983) & 55: 198 (1985); Schelpe & N.C. Anthony, F.S.A., Pterid.: 156, fig. 49/3, map 132 (1986); J.E. Burrows, Ferns S. Afr.: 187, t. 30/4, fig. 44/188 (1990), non (Sw.) C. Presl]
Information
Epiphytic or sometimes on rocks. Rhizome widely creeping with reddish brown hairy roots and fronds spaced up to 5 cm apart; scales dark grey-brown, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, pseudoserrate, clathrate. Fronds simple, very rarely forked, narrowly elliptic, 5.5–35 cm long and up to 3.2 cm wide, entire, irregularly sinuate or rarely with some median lobes; midrib and venation immersed; stipe straw-coloured to purplish brown, up to 3 cm long, continuous with phyllopodium and scales extending up the base of the stipes. Sori up to 2.3 cm long, 2.5 mm wide, linear-oblong, set at about 15° to the midrib and usually but not always overlapping by less than 1/4 of their length (rarely by up to 1/2), quite frequently not overlapping at all. Fig. 12.
Range
DISTR. U 1–4; K 1, 3–7; T 2–4, 7, 8 widespread throughout tropical Africa to South Africa, also Comoro Is. and Madagascar
Altitude range
900–2900 m
Distribution
UGANDA Toro District Ruwenzori, 6.5 km N of Kilembe, 16 Feb. 1969, Lock 69/9!KENYA Naivasha District S Kinangop, Sasamua Dam, pipe-line road, 11 Dec. 1960, Verdcourt, Polhill & Lucas 3036!TANZANIA Moshi District S slopes Kilimanjaro, Lyamungu, 21 Aug. 1932, Greenway 3080!UGANDA Mbale District Elgon, Benet, Jan. 1936, Eggeling 2456!UGANDA Mengo District Mabira Forest, Dawe 157!KENYA South Nyeri District S Mt Kenya, Castle Forest Station, 30 Nov. 1971, Faden et. al. 71/892!;KENYA N Kavirondo District Kakamega Forest, 9 Dec. 1956, Verdcourt 1672!TANZANIA Lushoto District E Usambaras, between Amani and Monga, 20 May 1950, Verdcourt 208!TANZANIA Tukuyu District N slope of Rungwe Mt, 7 Feb. 196l, Richards 14265a!TANZANIA Songea District Matengo Hills, Lupembe Hill, 29 Feb. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 8765!
Notes
M.G. Price in his exhaustive study of this genus has separated L. abyssinica from L. lanceolata, the latter not occurring on the mainland of Africa. The main distinguishing features separating the two are as follows – in the former the phyllopodium is continuous with the stipe, there being no discernible boundary, and scales extend up the base of the stipe a short way – in the latter the stipe is non-functionally articulate to the phyllopodium with a clear boundary and the scales are restricted to the phyllopodium.

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