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Todea africana

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Name

Identification
Osmunda barbara Thunb. [family OSMUNDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Todea africana Willd. [family OSMUNDACEAE ] Verified by Smith, Sir James Edward,
Related name
  • Todea africana
  • Osmunda barbara
  • Osmunda totta
  • Todea barbara
  • Acrostichum barbarum

Flora

Entry for Todea barbara L. Moore [family OSMUNDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 0, Part 0, page 44, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Todea barbara L. Moore [family OSMUNDACEAE], Ind. Fil.: 119 (1857).—Sim, Ferns S. Afr. ed. 2: 309, t. 169 (1915). TAB. 11. Type from S. Africa.
Acrostichum barbarum L. [family OSMUNDACEAE], Sp. Pl. 2: 1072 (1753). Type as above.
Osmunda totta Sw. [family OSMUNDACEAE], in Schrad., Journ. Bot. 1800, 2: 105 (1801) nom. illegit. Type from S. Africa.
Todea africana Willd. [family OSMUNDACEAE], in Nov. Act. Acad. Erfurt, 2: 14, t. 3 fig. 1 (1802) nom. illegit. Type from S. Africa.
Information
Rhizome erect to procumbent, covered with the persistent winged bases of the stipes to form a rhizomatous mass up to 12 cm. in diam. bearing tufted fronds at the apex. Fronds erect, set with a loose rufous tomentum during development but glabrous at maturity. Stipe pale-brown, up to 1.5 cm. in diam. near the base, smooth. Lamina up to 1.1 x 0.44 m., deeply 2-pinnatifid, narrowly oblong in outline; pinnae cultrate to narrowly lanceolate in outline, usually set at an angle of 40–50º to the rhachis, pinnatifid almost to the costa into cultrate minutely serrate acute coriaceous lobes up to 4 x 0.5 cm. with broadened adnate bases. Sporangia borne on the under surface of undifierentiated pinnae usually in the lowest 1/3 of the latter.
Habitat
Streambanks
Range
with a subspecies in Australia and New Zealand
Altitude range
at higher altitudes.
Distribution
Mozambique MS Musapa Gap, 6.x.1950, Chase 3057 (BM; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chimanimani Mts., 2.ii.1958, Mitchell 278 (BM; BOL; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa

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