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Polypodium lanceolatum

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Identification
Polypodium lanceolatum Not on sheet. [family POLYPODIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Pleopodium simianum Schelpe & N.C. Anthony [family POLYPODIACAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Polypodium macrocarpum
  • Polypodium dimorphum
  • Campyloneurum amphostenon
  • Pleopeltis macrocarpa
  • Pleopeltis erythrolepis
  • Polypodium mexicanum
  • Pleopeltis mexicana
  • Polypodium lanceolatum
  • Pleopeltis polylepis
  • Pleopodium simianum
  • Polypodium erythrolepis
  • Polypodium percussum
  • Pleopeltis percussa
  • Polypodium peltatum

Flora

Entry for Pleopeltis macrocarpa Bory ex Willd. Kaulf. [family POLYPODIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 0, Part 0, page 144, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Pleopeltis kaulfussiana C. Presl [family POLYPODIACEAE], loc. cit. reimpr., loc. cit. Type from S. Africa.
Drynaria macrocarpa Bory ex Willd. Fée [family POLYPODIACEAE], Mém. Fam. Foug. 5: 270 (1852). Type as for Pleopeltis macrocarpa.
Drynaria lepidota Willd. ex Schlechtend. Fée [family POLYPODIACEAE], loc. cit. Type as for Polypodium lepidotum.
Pleopeltis marginalis Bory ex Willd. Kaulf. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Berl. Jahrb. Pharm. 21: 41 (1820). Type as for Polypodium marginale.
Pleopeltis lanceolata Kaulf. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Enum. Fil.: 245 (1824). Type from S. Africa.
Polypodium lepidotum Willd. ex Schlechtend. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Adumbr.: 17, t. 8 (1825). Type from S. Africa.
Pleopeltis lepidota Willd. ex Schlechtend. C. Presl [family POLYPODIACEAE], Tent. Pterid.: 193 (1836) reimpr. in Abh. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss., Ser. 4, 5: 193 (1837). Type as above.
Pleopeltis macrocarpa Bory ex Willd. Kaulf. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Berl. Jahrb. Pharm. 21: 41 (1820). TAB. 45 fig. B. Type from Mascarene Is.
Polypodium lanceolatum L. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Sp. Pl. 2: 1082 (1753).—Sim, Ferns S. Afr. ed. 2: 278. t. 142 (1915) non Pleopeltis lanceolata Kaulf. Type from S. Domingo.
Polypodium macrocarpum Bory ex Willd. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in L., Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 5: 127 (1810). Type as for Pleopeltis macrocarpa.
Polypodium marginale Bory ex Willd. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in L., tom. cit. 149 (1810). Type from Mascarene Is.
Polypodium adspersum Schrad. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Gött. Gel. Anz. 1818: 915 (1818). Type from S. Africa.
Pleopeltis ensifolia Carm. ex Hook. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Exot. Fl. 1: t. 62 (1823). Type from S. Africa.
Information
Rhizome c. 2 mm. in diam., widely creeping, with fronds borne up to 2.5 cm. apart with lanceolate-acuminate brown rhizome-scales c. 3 mm. long with a dark central stripe and wide pale lacerate margins. Frond simple, stipitate, coriaceous. Stipe grey-brown at maturity, up to 8 cm. long, with a few small pale circular to lanceolate scales with a dark centre. Lamina up to 20 x 1.7 cm., narrowly elliptic, entire to weakly undulate (rarely sinuate to pinnatifid), upper surface glabrous, lower surface with numerous pale circular to lanceolate minutely lacerate scales under 1 mm. long with dark centres. Sori oval, up to 4 mm. in diam., in a line on either side of the midrib in the upper 1/2 of the lamina.
Habitat
Epiphytic and lithophytic in forest
Altitude range
1000–2300 m.
2300
1000
Distribution
Mozambique MS Gorongosa Mt., Gogogo Peak, 5.vii.1955, Schelpe 5526 (BM).Mozambique T Mt. Zóbuè, 3.x.1942, Mendonça 605 (LISC).Mozambique Z Namúli Mt., R. Licungo, 29.vii.1962, Schelpe & Leach 7088 (BOL).Malawi S Zomba Distr., Zomba Plateau, 31.v.1946, Brass 16119 (K; SRGH).Malawi C Kota Kota Distr., Nchisi Mt., 3.vii.1946, Brass 17057 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Belingwe Distr., Mt. Buhwe, 10.xii.1953, Wild 4311 (BM; BOL; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Umtali Distr., Nyachowa Falls, 20.vi.1948, Chase 1095 (BM; BOL; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Ngomokurira, 21.ii.1959, Mitchell 494 (SRGH).Mozambique N Vila Cabral, Serra de Massangulo, 25.ii.1964, Torre & Paiva 10789 (LISC).Malawi N Nyika Plateau, 14.viii.1946, Brass 17227 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe N Mt. Binga, 29.i.1966, Pereira, Sannento & Marques 51 (LMU).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa
Madagascar
Mascarene Is.
tropical Africa
America
India

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