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Pteris cretica

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Identification
Pteris cretica L. [family PTERIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by John, H.St.,
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Flora

Entry for PTERIS cretica L. [family ]
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
PTERIS cretica L. [family ], Mantissa Pl.: 130 (1767) & Syst. Nat. ed. 12, 2: 688 (1767); Hieron. in V.E. 2: 45 (1908); Sim, Ferns S. Afr. ed. 2: 253, t. 126 (1915); F.D.-O.A.: 47 (1929); Tardieu, Fl. Madag., Polypod. 1: 86, t. 14, figs. 1–4 (1958); Schelpe in Bot. Not. 121: 313, fig. 3 (1968) & in Contr. Bolus Herb. 1: 60 (1969) & F.Z., Pterid.: 116 (1970) & Expl. Hydrobiol. Bassin L. Bangweolo & Luapula 8 (3) Ptérid.: 57 (1973) & C.F.A. Pterid.: 91 (1977); Schelpe & Diniz, Fl. Moçamb., Pterid.: 116 (1979); W. Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr.: 236, figs. 168a, b (1983); Schelpe & N.C. Anthony, F.S.A., Pterid.: 106, fig. 31/2, 2a (1986); J.E. Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 160, t. 26/1, fig. 38/159 (1990); Schippers in Fern Gaz. 14: 185 (1993); Faden in U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 20, t. 170 (1994). Type: ? Italy, P. Arduino, Herb. Linn. 1246.7 (LINN, lecto.)
Information
Rhizome creeping or ascending, up to 1 cm diameter, or forming a compact woody stock and with many fibrous roots; rhizome scales dark brown, lanceolate, ± 3 mm long, acuminate, entire. Fronds tufted, 0.45–1.2 m tall, sometimes in large clumps up to 7 m. wide. Stipe up to 80 cm long, glabrous, dark at base. Lamina ovate to triangular, simply pinnate except that the basal pinnae are usually unequally bifid with lower lobe the shorter (see note). Pinnae in up to 7 pairs or if with only one pair then frond appears ± palmate. Sterile pinnae lanceolate, 3–23 cm long, 1.5–2.7 cm wide; fertile pinna usually narrower, 7–20 cm long, 4–9 mm wide; all pinnae glabrous, bluntly to mostly sharply serrate or spinulose along the sterile margins; veins free. Sori in marginal lines for most of the length of the fertile pinnae. Fig. 2/2, frond (p. 7).
Range
DISTR. U 2; K 2–6; T 2, 6, 7 S Europe and widespread in Asia
Altitude range
1350–2700 m
Distribution
KENYA Trans-Nzoia District Elgon, E slope above Tweedie’s saw-mill, 8 Mar. 1948, Hedberg 308!;KENYA Kericho District Sotik, Kibajet Estate, 6 Oct. 1948, Bally 6466!;KENYA Masai District Narok, Shabal Tarakwa, about 4.8 km from Ol Pusimoru saw-mill, 20 May 1961, Glover et al. 1418!TANZANIA Arusha District E slopes of Mt Meru, 21 Feb. 1966, Greenway & Kanuri 12364!;TANZANIA Moshi District Kilimanjaro, hill above Kilimanjaro Timbers, 17 July 1993, Grimshaw 93/425!;TANZANIA Mbeya District Poroto Mts, Kikondo Camp, 20 Jan. 1961, Richards 13970!UGANDA Ankole District Buhweju, Rugongo, 7 Jan. 1971, Rwaburindore 502!;UGANDA Kigezi District Kirwa, Dec. 1938, Chandler & Hancock 2534! & Rubaya, 4 July 1945, A.S. Thomas 4277!
Distribution (external)
; Congo (Kinshasa)
Angola
Zambia
Malawi
Zimbabwe
Lesotho
South Africa
St. Helena
Ascension I
Madagascar
Mascarene Is
Yemen
Notes
Rarely the basal pinnae are not divided (see 1 on p. 4). Occasionally they are 3-fid.

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