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Pyrrosia rhodesiana

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Identification
Pyrrosia rhodesiana (C.Chr.) Schelpe [family POLYPODIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by P. H. Hovenkamp, Cyclophorus oblanceolatus C.Chr. [family POLYPODIACEAE ] Verified by Carl Frederick Albert Christensen,
Related name
  • Pyrrosia oblanceolata
  • Cyclophorus rhodesianus
  • Cyclophorus porosus
  • Cyclophorus oblanceolatus
  • Cyclophorus madagascariensis
  • Pyrrosia rhodesiana

Flora

Entry for PYRROSIA rhodesiana (C. Chr.) Schelpe [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
PYRROSIA rhodesiana (C. Chr.) Schelpe [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 18: 126, fig. 1/6 & 2/1 (1952) & in Contr. Bolus Herb. 1: 90 (1969) & F.Z., Pterid.: 147 (1970); Schelpe & M.A. Diniz, Fl. Moçamb., Pterid.: 151 (1979); W. Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr.: 304, fig. 219, map 91 (1983); Hovenkamp, Monogr. Pyrrosia : 235, fig. 16 (1986); J.E. Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 191, t. 31/2, fig. 193 & 193a, map (1990). Type: Zimbabwe, Umtali, Eyles 4472 (K!, holo., BOL, PRE, iso.)
Cyclophorus rhodesianus C. Chr. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in Dansk Bot. Arkiv 7: 161 (1932)
Information
Epiphyte or growing on rocks. Rhizome shortly creeping, 1.3–3.6 mm diameter with fronds borne at intervals of 0.5–3 cm and with shining light brown narrowly elliptic-lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, ± entire, denticulate or distinctly ciliate scales 4–9.7 mm long, 0.6–1.6 mm wide. Fronds stipitate or apparently so, the stipe up to 8 cm long, tomentose but glabrous with age; lamina narrowly elliptic-lanceolate to oblanceolate, 7–45 cm long, 0.7–3 cm wide, narrowly acute to obtuse at the apex, very narrowly decurrent at the base, ± glabrous above, thickly tomentose beneath with thick ferruginous stellate hairs with long slender arms ± 1 mm long. Sori apical or covering the lamina, immersed in the tomentum.
Range
DISTR. U 3; T 7
Altitude range
1000–1800 m
Distribution
UGANDA Mbale District Elgon, 24 May 1923, Snowden 787!TANZANIA Iringa District Mufindi, Lulando Forest, 19 Apr. 1987, Lovett & Congdon 2042! & Uzungwa Mts, Sonjo–Mwanihana, 8 Nov. 1997, Luke & Luke 5043a!
Distribution (external)
; Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Notes
The two older specimens were recorded as being epiphytes high on forest trees.

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