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Name

Identification
Nephrolepis undulata (Afzel. ex Sw.) J.Sm. [family OLEANDRACEAE ] (stored under name); Nephrolepis pluma Moore [family OLEANDRACEAE ]
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Entry for Nephrolepis undulata Afz. ex Sw. J. Sm. [family DAVALLIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 0, Part 0, page 159, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Nephrolepis undulata Afz. ex Sw. J. Sm. [family DAVALLIACEAE], in Curt., Bot. Mag. 72, Comp.: 37 (1846). TAB. 49 fig. A. Type from Sierra Leone.
Aspidium undulatum Afz. ex Sw. [family DAVALLIACEAE], in Schrad., Journ. Bot., 1800, 2: 32 (1801). Type as above.
Aspidium imbricatum Kaulf. ex Spreng. [family DAVALLIACEAE], in L., Syst. Veg., ed. 16, 4: 97 (1827). Type from Mascarene Is.
Nephrolepis imbricata Kaulf. ex Spreng. C. Presl [family DAVALLIACEAE], Tent. Pterid.: 79 (1836) reimpr. in Abh. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss., Ser. 4, 5: 79 (1837). Type as above.
Nephrolepis pluma Moore [family DAVALLIACEAE], in Gard. Chron., n.s. 9: 588, fig. 68 (1878). Type from ? Madagascar.
Nephrolepis filipes Christ [family DAVALLIACEAE], in Ann. Mus. Cong., 1: 213 (1906). Type from the Congo.
Nephrolepis cordifolia var. compacta Bonap. [family DAVALLIACEAE], Not. Ptérid. 14: 265 (1923). Type from the Congo.
Information
Rhizome shortly erect, with few tufted fronds, forming tubers up to 1.5 cm. long and also producing long thin stolons. Frond erect, thinly to firmly herbaceous. Stipe pale-dark-brown, up to IS cm. long, with sparse very narrowly lanceolate entire acuminate brown scales up to 4 mm. long becoming subglabrous with age. Lamina up to 85 x 11 cm., pinnate, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate in outline, acute, with the lower pinnae gradually reduced. Pinnae up to 72 pairs, subsessile, very narrowly oblong-attenuate, sometimes falcate, crenate to serrate with a prominently auriculate base; glabrous on both surfaces with inconspicuous submarginal hydathodes on the ventral surface; the lowest pinnae oblong, obtuse, auriculate. Rhachis stramineous, glabrous except for scattered brown hair-like scales up to 2 mm. long. Sori semi-lunate, opening towards the apex of the pinnae, set in a line about 1/2-way between the costa and the margin on both sides of the costa, c. 1.5–3 mm. apart and up to 1.5 mm. in diam.; indusium semi-lunate, membranous, entire.
Habitat
Undergrowth in forest, often deciduous in the dry season
Altitude range
900–1675 m.
1675
900
Distribution
Mozambique MS Garuso 28.i.1949, Fisher & Schweickerdt 535 (BM; K; NU).Mozambique T Macanga, 17.iii.1966, Pereira, Sarmento & Marques 1802 (LMU).Mozambique Z Namúli Mt., 25.vii.1962, Schelpe & Leach 7001 (BOL).Malawi S Goche, Kirk Range, 30.i.1959, Robson 1355 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Melsetter Distr., Mt. Pene, 14.iv.1957, Chase 6408 (BM; BOL; K; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Marandellas, Wedza Mte., iii.1955. Davies 978 (BM; BOL; K; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Victoria Falls, 1930, Cheesman (K).Zambia S Knife Edge, Victoria Falls, 6.vii.1953, Schelpe 3941 (BM; BOL; K; P; US).Zambia E Lundazi, 8.v.1952, White 2804 (K).Zambia C Chakwenga Headwaters, E. of Lusaka, 19.i.1964, Robinson 6210 (K; SRGH).Zambia W Mwinilunga Distr., Matonchi Farm, 24.i.1938, Milne-Redhead 4306 (K).Zambia N Abercorn Distr., L. Chila, 19.iv.1936, Burtt 6245 (K).Malawi N Rumpi, Deep Bay, Njakwamile, 12.v.1952, White 2837 (K).Mozambique N Vila Cabral, iii.1934, Torre 20 (COI; LISC).Zimbabwe N Mazoe, Iron Mask, iv.1906, Eyles 329 (SRGH).Zambia B Ipee Forest, 10.xii.1938, Martin 918 (K).
Distribution (external)
tropical Africa
Madagascar
Mascarene Is

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