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Salvinia hastata

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Name

Identification
Salvinia hildebrandtii Baker [family SALVINIACEAE ] Salvinia hastata Desv. [family SALVINIACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Salvinia mollis
  • Salvinia hildebrandtii
  • Salvinia hastata

Flora

Entry for SALVINIA hastata Desv. [family SALVINIACEAE]
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, (2000) Author: B. VERDCOURT, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
SALVINIA hastata Desv. [family SALVINIACEAE], in Mém. Soc. Linn., Paris 6: 177 (1827); Hieron. in P.O.A. C: 89 (1895); Tardieu, Fl. Madag. 11: 2 (1952); Schelpe, F.Z., Pterid.: 67, t. 19/a (1970); Schelpe & Diniz, Fl. Moçamb., Pterid.: 67 (1979); W. Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr.: 491, fig. 370, map 185 (1983). Type: Mascarene Islands, ?Réunion, collector? (P, holo.)
Information
Yellow-green plant. Rhizome 1 mm diameter with dark brown multicellular hairs up to 2 mm long on the upper surface. Floating leaves opposite, oblong, up to 2 cm long, 1.3 cm wide, sometimes slightly broadened towards the base, emarginate at the apex, cordate to truncate at the base, flat or infolded along the midrib, papillate on the upper surface with minute whitish multicellular hairs, pilose beneath with brownish multicellular hairs; submerged leaf up to 6.5 cm long, the lobes with dense dark brown multicellular hairs up to 3 mm long. Sporocarps spherical, hairy, up to 6, arranged in two rows along the midrib of one dissected leaf-lobe. Fig. 1A.
Range
DISTR. K 7; T 7
Altitude range
30–550 m
Distribution
KENYA Lamu District Boni Forest, Maungi Pool, 26 Oct. 1957, Greenway & Rawlins 9430!TANZANIA Rungwe District Mwaya, 22 Aug. 1933, Greenway 3590!
Distribution (external)
; Malawi
Mozambique
Madagascar
Mascarene Is
Notes
Tardieu-Blot (1952) maintains 2 forms, forma typica (i.e. forma hastata ) and forma navifolia Tardieu.

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