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Polypodium loxogramme

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Name

Identification
Polypodium loxogramme Mett. [family POLYPODIACEAE ] Verified by Price, M.G., Loxogramme abyssinica (Baker) M.G.Price [family POLYPODIACAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Loxogramme fauriei
  • Polypodium loxogramme
  • Gymnogramma abyssinica
  • Loxogramme salicifolia
  • Loxogramme assimilis
  • Loxogramme latifolia
  • Loxogramme chinensis
  • Polypodium not on sheet
  • Gymnogramma lanceolata
  • Loxogramme lanceolata
  • Loxogramme abyssinica
  • Gymnogramme lanceolata

Flora

Entry for LOXOGRAMME latifolia Bonap. [family POLYPODIACEAE]
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, (2001) Author: B. Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
LOXOGRAMME latifolia Bonap. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Not. Ptérid. 14: 334 (1923): Tardieu in Mém. I.F.A.N. 28: 213, t. 40/7 (1953); Alston, Ferns W.T.A.: 48 (1959); Tardieu, Fl. Cameroun 3, Ptérid.: 344, t. 16/7 (1964); Schelpe in Contr. Bolus Herb. 1: 94 (1969) and C.F.A., Pterid.: 116 (1977). Type: Congo (Kinshasa), Lesse, forest bordering the R. Semliki, Bequaert 3073 (BR, holo., P, iso.)
Polypodium loxogramme Bonap. forma gigas [family POLYPODIACEAE], Not. Ptérid. 15: 45 (1924). Type: Uganda, Mengo District, Kipayo, Dummer 754 (sphalm: ‘154’) (US 634593 & 634594, syn., K!, isosyn.)
Loxogramme lanceolata (Bonap.) Benl var. latifolia [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Pterid. Fernando Po, Acta Bot. Barcinon. 33: 26 (1982)
Information
Rhizome short with tufted fronds; scales ± black, lanceolate, 2–5 mm long, 0.5 mm wide. Fronds subcoriaceous, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 20–50 cm long, 2–4(–6.5) cm wide, finely pointed, very gradually narrowed at the base into a short winged stipe, entire, glabrous, costa sunken above, flattened beneath; nerves scarcely visible, forming a row of elongated areoles. Sori linear, oblique, overlapping by 1/4–1/2 of their length.
Range
DISTR. U 4
Altitude range
?1150–1200 m
Distribution
UGANDA Masaka District Buddu, Dawe 284!UGANDA Mengo District Kipayo, Apr. 1914, Dummer 754! & 32 km W of Kampala, Mpanga Forest, Feb. 1965, Tweedie 3000a!
Distribution (external)
; Liberia
Ghana
Cameroon
Bioko
Congo (Kinshasa)
Angola

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