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Meniscium proliferum

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Identification
Meniscium proliferum (Retz.) Sw. [family THELYPTERIDACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Hemionitis prolifera Retz. [family THELYPTERIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Meniscium proliferum
  • Hemionitis prolifera

Flora

Entry for Ampelopteris prolifera (Retz) Copeland [family THELYPTERIDACEAE]
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, (2006) Author: BERNARD VERDCOURT
Names
Ampelopteris prolifera (Retz) Copeland [family THELYPTERIDACEAE], Gen. Fil: 144 (1947); Tardieu, Fl. Madag. 5(1): 300 (1958); Alston, Ferns W.T.A.: 63 (1959); Haerdi in Acta Tropica, Suppl. 8: 32 (1964); Schelpe, F.Z., Pterid.: 200, t. 56 (1970) & Expl. Hydrobiol. Bassin L Bangweolo & Luapula 8 (3) Ptérid.: 82, fig. 25 (1973); Holttum in J. S. Afr. Bot. 40: 153 (1974); Schelpe, C.F.A., Pterid.: 160, t. 28 (1977); Schelpe & Diniz, Fl. Moçamb., Pterid.: 215, t.15 (1979); Holttum, Fl. Males. ser. II, 1: 387, fig. 7/d–f (1981); Pic. Serm. in B.J.B.B. 53: 284 (1983); Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr.: 398, fig. 300 (1983); Schelpe & Anthony, F.S.A., Pterid. 220, fig. 74 (1986); Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 270, t. 45/3, illustr. 62, 276, 276 a & b (1990); Schippers in Fern Gaz. 14: 196 (1993); Faden in U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 32 (1994). Type*: S India, Koenig s.n. (LD, holo.)
Hemionitis prolifera Retz. [family ADIANTACEAE], Obs. Bot. 6: 38 (1791)
Meniscium proliferum (Retz.) Sw. [family THELYPTERIDACEAE], Syn. Fil.:19, 207 (1806); Hook., Sec. Cent. Ferns, t. 15 pro parte excl. small complete plant and fig. 2 (1861)
Nephrodium proliferum (Retz.) Keys. [family DRYOPTERIDACEAE], Pol. Cyath. Hb. Bung.: 49 (1873); Hieron. in V.E. 2: 12, fig. 8 (1908)
Dryopteris prolifera (Retz.) C.Chr. [family DRYOPTERIDACEAE], Ind. Fil.: 286 (1905); Sim, Ferns S. Afr. ed. 2: 99, t. 14 (1915)
Cyclosorus proliferus (Retz.) Tardieu & C.Chr. [family THELYPTERIDACEAE], in Not. Syst. 14: 346 (1952); Tardieu, Mem. I.F.A.N. 28: 128, t. 22/11–13 (1953)
Information
Rhizome stout, up to 1 cm in diameter, with black triangular entire acuminate scales up to 2 mm long but these are sometimes absent. Fronds up to 1.2–1.4 m tall. Stipe up to 40 cm long. Lamina oblong or narrowly trianglar in outline, up to 1 m long, 26 cm wide, with basal pinnae hardly reduced; upper pinnae reduced towards the apex. Pinnae oblong-lanceolate to linear-oblong, 3–15 cm long, 0.8–2 cm wide, acute at the apex, truncate at the base, sessile or petiolate, very shallowly lobed or no more than crenate, glabrous; terminal pinnae ± lobed at base; veins up to 8 pairs with at least 5 pairs anastomosing. Sori coalescing to form a ± zig-zag line along the pinna curving round the lobes. Fig. 8, p. 29.
Range
DISTR. K 4, T 2, 6, 7; Z widespread in tropics and subtropics of Old World to New Caledonia, New Guinea and Australia
Altitude range
0–1100 m
Distribution
KENYA Embu/Kitui District along the R. Tana, Faden s.n.TANZANIA Moshi District Kikafu R. bridge, 15 Apr. 1968, Greenway & Kanuri 13459!TANZANIA Ulanga District near Kiberege, Oct. 1960, Haerdi 612/0TANZANIA Rungwe District Kiwira (Kibila), 3 Nov. 1911, Stolz 953!TANZANIA Zanzibar Mwera Swamp, 19 Aug. 1960, Fanshawe 2686!
Distribution (external)
Senegal
Guinea
Cameroon
Congo (Kinshasa)
Burundi
Angola
Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
South Africa
Madagascar
Mascarene Is

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