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Polypodium vittarioides

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Identification
Polypodium pertusum Roxb. ex Hook. [family POLYPODIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Polypodium vittarioides Wall. [family POLYPODIACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Polypodium vittarioides Wall. [family POLYPODIACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
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  • Polypodium vittarioides
  • Polypodium pertusum

Flora

Entry for Pyrrosia lanceolata L. Farw. [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
Candollea lanceolata L. Mirb. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Lam. & Mirb., Hist. Nat. Vég. 5: 89 (1803). Type as above.
Polypodium adnascens Sw. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Syn. Fil.: 25, 222, t. 2 fig. 2 (1806). Type from India.
Polypodium spissum Bory ex Willd. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in L., Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 5: 146 (1810). Type from Réunion.
Pyrrosia lanceolata L. Farw. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Amer. Midl. Nat. 12: 245 (1931). Type from India.
Acrostichum lanceolatum L. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Sp. Pl. 2: 1067 (1753). Type as above.
Pyrrosia adnascens Sw. Ching [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Bull. Chin. Bot. Soc. 1: 45 (1935). Type as for Polypodium adnascens.
Cyclophorus spissus Bory ex Willd. Desv. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Mag. Naturf. Berl. 5: 301 (1811). Type as above.
Niphobolus spissus Bory ex Willd. Kaulf. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Enum. Fil.: 126 (1824). Type as above.
Polypodium pertusum Hook. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Exot. Fl. 2: t. 162 (1825) pro parte. Type from China.
Cyclophorus vittarioides C. Presl [family POLYPODIACEAE], Epim. Bot.: 129 (1851) reimpr. in Abh. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss., Ser. 5, 6: 489 (1851). Type from Malacca.
Polypodium vittarioides Wall. ex Mett. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Abh. Senckenb. Nat. Ges. 2: 126 (1856) reimpr. in Mett., Farngatt., Polypod.: 126 (1857). Type as above.
Niphobolus fissus Bedd. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Ferns S. India: t. 184 (1864) non B1. (1828). Type from India.
Niphobolus adnascens Sw. Bedd. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Handb. Ferns Brit. Ind.: 325 (1883). Type as for Polypodium adnascens.
Niphobolus lanceolatus L. Trimen [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 24: 152 (1886). Type as for Pyrrosia lanceolata.
Niphobolus tener Giesenh. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Niphobolus: 211 (1901). Type from Réunion.
Cyclophorus tener Giesenh. C. Chr. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Ind. Fil.: 201 (1905). Type as above.
Niphobolus giesenhagenii Christ [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. Genève, 7–8: 330 (1905). Type from India (Garhwal).
Cyclophorus giesenhagenii Christ C. Chr. [family POLYPODIACEAE], Ind. Fil.: 199 (1905). Type as above.
Cyclophorus spissus var. continentalis Hieron. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 46: 399 (1911). Syntypes from Tanzania and Cameroon.
Cyclophorus lanceolatus L. Alston [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Journ. of Bot. 69: 102 (1931). Type as for Pyrrosia lanceolata.
Information
Rhizome c. 1.3 mm. in diam., widely creeping, with widely spaced fronds and with pale-brown to grey, linear-lanceolate, ciliate, rhizome-scales up to 4 mm. long. Frond stipitate, thinly coriaceous. Stipe up to 1.8 cm. long, tomentose, becoming glabrous with age. Lamina up to 16 x 1.5 cm., simple, linear to lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, narrowly acute to obtuse, entire but usually with a narrowly reflexed margin; upper surface more or less glabrous, lower surface appressed tomentose with pale-brown or grey stellate hairs with short flattened arms, becoming subglabrous with age. Sori emergent through the tomentum.
Habitat
Epiphytic in forest on the Mozambique Plain.
Distribution
Mozambique MS Cheringoma, Serração de Durúndi, 25.v.1942, Torre 4189A (BM; COI; LISC).
Distribution (external)
Tanzania
Uganda
Congo
Cameroon
Príncipe
Mascarene Is.
tropical Asia

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