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Pellaea involuta

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Name

Identification
Pellaea involuta (Sw.) Baker [family ADIANTACEAE ] (stored under name); Pellaea bojeri Hook [family ADIANTACEAE ] Pteridella involuta unrecorded [family ADIANTACEAE ] Pteris cordata Mett [family PTERIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Pellaea involuta
  • Pteris cordata
  • Pteridella involuta
  • Pellaea bojeri

Flora

Entry for PELLAEA involuta (Sw.) Bak. [family ADIANTACEAE]
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, (2002) Author: BERNARD VERDCOURT
Names
PELLAEA involuta (Sw.) Bak. [family ADIANTACEAE], Syn. Fil. ed. 2: 148 (1874); Sim, Ferns S. Afr. ed. 2: 205, t. 95 (1915); F.D.-O.A.: 38 (1929); Schippers in Fern Gaz. 14: 181 (1993); Faden in U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 18 (1994). Type: South Africa, Cape Province, Thunberg s.n. (UPS, holo.)
Information
Rhizome creeping with very dense chestnut linear-lanceolate scales 3–6 mm long, sometimes with a dark central stripe. Fronds 2–50, tufted, 10–40 cm long; stipe purplish black 2–15.5 cm long, densely hairy and covered with scales similar to those of rhizome, dense at base; lamina narrowly oblong to lanceolate or ± triangular, 7–22 cm long, 3.5–6.5 cm wide, bipinnate or pinnate with deeply pinnatifid pinnae; 4–12 pairs of pinnae, the lower ones with stalk about 1 cm long, upper sometimes entire; the lower pinnae can be bipinnate hence lamina partly 3-pinnate; ultimate pinnules oblong, oblong-ovate or oblong hastate, 10–17(–20) mm long, 6(–12) mm wide, with crimped edges; veins free, obscure or ± visible. Sori and indusium continuous.Laminanarrowly oblong to lanceolate; sulca of stipe and rhachis rounded.

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