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Pteris serraria

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Identification
Pteris angustata Wall. [family PTERIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Pteris serraria Sw. [family PTERIDACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Pteris serrata Not on Sheet [family PTERIDACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Pteris serrata
  • Pteris serraria
  • Pteris not on sheet
  • Pteris cretica
  • Pteris angustata

Flora

Entry for Pteris cretica L. [family ADIANTACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 0, Part 0, page 98, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Pteris cretica L. [family ADIANTACEAE], Syst. Nat. 2: 688 (1767); Mant. Pl.: 130 (1767).—Sim, Ferns S. Afr. ed. 2: 253, t. 126 (1915).—Tardieu, Fl. Madag., Polypod. 1: 86, t. 14 fig. 1–4 (1958). Type from S. Europe.
Pteris semiserrata Forsk. [family ADIANTACEAE], Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: CXXIV, 186 (1775). Type from Yemen.
Pteris nervosa Thunb. [family ADIANTACEAE], Fl. Jap.: 332 (1784). Type from Japan.
Pteris serraria Sw. [family ADIANTACEAE], in Schrad., Journ. Bot. 1800, 2: (1801). Type from S. Africa.
Pteris pentaphylla Willd. [family ADIANTACEAE], in L., Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 5: 362 (1810). Type from Réunion.
Pycnodoria cretica L. Small [family ADIANTACEAE], Ferns Florida: 91 (1932). Type as for Pteris cretica.
Information
Rhizome up to 1 cm. in diam., creeping, with tufted fronds and with lanceolate acuminate entire concolorous dark-brown rhizome-scales c. 3 mm. long. Stipe up to 65 cm. long, stramineous to light-brown, shallowly sulcate, glabrous. Fronds often dimorphous with the fertile fronds taller and with narrower pinnae than in the sterile fronds, erect, firmly membranous to chartaceous. Lamina ovate to triangular in outline, mostly pinnate but with the basal pinnae unequally 2-fid, the shorter lobe produced basiscopically; pinnae and lobes of the basal pinnae linear-attenuate, the lower sessile the upper adnate, decurrent, the sterile margins of the sterile and fertile pinnae bluntly to sharply serrate-dentate, sometimes undulate; sterile pinnae up to 11 x 2.4 cm., fertile pinnae up to 20 x 0.9 cm.; veins free; rhachis stramineous, shallowly sulcate,. glabrous. Sori in marginal lines extending for most of the length of the fertile pinnae, with paraphyses; indusium linear, subentire, membranous.
Habitat
In shade in forest undergrowth, usually on streambanks
Range
Widespread in eastern S. Africa and the mountains of E. tropical AfricaAsia eastwards to Japan
Altitude range
1200–2150 m.
2150
1200
Distribution
Malawi S Blantyre, viii.1870, Buchanan 144 (K).Malawi C Dedza Distr., Domwe Hill, iv.1961, Chapman 1211 (SRGH).Zimbabwe E Vumba Mts., Thordale, 4.ii.1950, Chase 3525 (BM; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Salisbury, Sim (PRE).Zimbabwe W Victoria Falls, Rain Forest, 4.x.1964, Whellan 2195 (BOL; SRGH).Malawi N Nyika Plateau, 4 km. SW. of Rest House, 24.x.1958, Robson 312 (BM; K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe N Mazoe, xii.1906, Eyles 498 (BM; BOL; SRGH).Zambia E Nyika Plateau, 3.i. 1959, Robinson 3020 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Ascension I.
Madagascar
Réunion
southern Europe

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