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Microsorium punctatum

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Filed as Microsorium punctatum (L.) Copel. [family POLYPODIACEAE]

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Identification

Microsorium punctatum (L.) Copel. [family POLYPODIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by M.T.M. Bosman, 1990 Polypodium crassinerve Schumach. [family POLYPODIACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Polypodium irioides Lam. [family POLYPODIACEAE ] Verified by ??, 1891

zo (B&D) 'NÉKÉDIÉ' kuli (B&D) (IVORY COAST, KWENI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for Microsorium punctatum L. Copel. [family POLYPODIACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Flora Zambesiaca

Reference Sources

FZ, Vol 0, Part 0, page 144, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe

Polypodium crassinerve Schumach. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Kongel. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Afh. 4: 227 (1829) non Bl. (1828). Type from West Africa.

Microsorium irregulare Link [family POLYPODIACEAE], Hort. Berol. 2: 110 (1833). Type of unknown origin.

Phymatodes polycarpa Cav. ex Sw. C. Presl [family POLYPODIACEAE], Tent. Pterid.: 198, t. 8 fig. 19 (1836) reimpr. in Abh. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss., Ser. 4, 5: 198, t. 8 fig. 19 (1837). Type as for Polypodium polycarpon.

Phymatodes irioides Poir. C. Presl [family POLYPODIACEAE], tom. cit.: 198 (1836) reimpr., tom. cit.: 198 (1837). Type as for Polypodium irioides.

Drynaria irioides Poir. J. Sm. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Hook., Journ. Bot. 3: 398 (1841). Type as above.

Microsorium irioides Poir. Fée [family POLYPODIACEAE], Mém. Fam. Foug. 5: 268 (1852). Type as for Polypodium irioides.

Pleopeltis irioides Poir. Moore [family POLYPODIACEAE], Ind. Fil.: 78 (1857). Type as above.

Drynaria polycarpa Cav. ex Sw. Moore [family POLYPODIACEAE], Ind. Fil.: 78 (1857). Type as for Polypodium polycarpon.

Pleopeltis polycarpa Cav. ex Sw. Moore [family POLYPODIACEAE], loc. cit. Type as for Polypodium polycarpon.

Pleopeltis punctata L. Bedd. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Ferns Brit. Ind.: 22 (1876). Type as for Microsorium punctatum.

Colysis irioides Poir. J. Sm. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Hist. Fil.: 101 (1875). (\"erioides\"). Type as for Polypodium irioides.

Microsorium polycarpon Cav. ex Sw. Tardieu [family POLYPODIACEAE], Fl. Madag., Polypod. 2: 114 (1960). Type as for Polypodium polycarpon.

Polypodium polycarpon Cav. ex Sw. [family POLYPODIACEAE], loc. cit.—Cav., Descr. Pl. 1: 246 (1802). Type from Luzon or Marianne Is.

Polypodium irioides Poir. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Encycl. Méth. Bot. 5: 513 (1804). Type from Mauritius.

Polypodium lingulatum Sw. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Syn. Fil.: 30 (1806) nom. illegit. Type from China.

Niphobolus polycarpus Cav. ex Sw. Spreng. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in L., Syst. Veg., ed. 16, 4: 45 (1827). Type as for Polypodium polycarpon.

Microsorium punctatum L. Copel. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 16: 111 (1929). TAB. 48 fig. A. Type from China.

Acrostichum punctatum L. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Sp. Pl., ed. 2, 2: 1524 (1763). Type as above.

Polypodium punctatum L. Sw. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Schrad., Journ. Bot. 1800, 2: 21 (1801). Type as above.

Rhizome c. 8 mm. in diam., creeping, embedded in a thick felt of roots with fronds c. 1 cm. apart and with dark-grey entire lanceolate acuminate rhizome-scales c. 3 mm. long. Frond simple, subsessile, glabrous, thinly to thickly camose-coriaceous. Lamina up to 100 x 9 cm., elliptic to narrowly elliptic, entire to irregularly undulate, rounded, acute or acuminate; midrib prominent below, venation rather obscure. Sori c. 1 mm. in diam., numerous, minute, scattered over the under surface of the lamina.

Epiphytic or lithophytic, often in large colonies in forest

Mozambique M Lourenço Marques (?), 1917–18, Junod 351 (LISC).Mozambique GI Rio das Pedras, vi.1936. Gomes e Sousa 1760 (COI; K).Mozambique MS Amatongas Forest, 15.vii.1957, Chase 6630 (BM; BOL; K; SRGH).Mozambique Z Morrumbala, 1864, Waller (K).Malawi S Mlanje Mt., 7.iv.1958, Chapman 581 (BM; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Umtali Distr., Vumba Mts., Burma Valley, 8.xii.1961, Wild & Chase 5571 (BM; K; LISC; SRGH).

Distribution (external)

tropical Africa