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Vittaria hildebrandtii

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Name

Identification
Vittaria hildebrandtii Hieron. [family VITTARIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Christensen,C.,
Related name
  • Vittaria elongata
  • Vittaria hildebrandtii

Flora

Entry for VITTARIA elongata Sw. [family VITTARIACEAE]
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, (1999) Author: B. Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
VITTARIA elongata Sw. [family VITTARIACEAE], Syn. Fil.: 109, 302 (1806); Hieron. in P.O.A. C: 81 (1895); V.E. 2: 48, fig. 43 (1908); F.D.-O.A.: 52 (1929); Holttum, Ferns Malaya: 614, fig. 360 (1955, 1968); Schelpe in Contr. Bolus Herb. 1: 20 (1969) & F.Z., Pterid.: 96, t. 29c (1970); Schelpe & Diniz, Fl. Moçamb., Pterid.: 97 (1979); W. Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr.: 215, fig. 152/a–b, map 47 (1983); J.E. Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 111, t. 17/2, fig. 112, map (1990). Type: “E. India”, Rottler (? S, holo.)
Vittaria scolopendrina [family VITTARIACEAE], [sensu Kuhn in Von der Deckens Reisen, Bot.: 71 (1879); Sim, Ferns S. Afr. ed. 2: 268, t. 186 (1915) non (Bory) Thwaites]
Oetosis elongata (Sw.) Greene [family ], in Pittonia 4: 103 (1900)
Vittaria hildebrandtii Hieron. [family VITTARIACEAE], in E.J. 53: 419 (1915); C. Chr. in Dansk Bot. Arkiv. 7: 143, t. 55/4 (1932); Tardieu, Fl. Madag. 5(1): 178 (1953). Types: Comoro Is, Mwali [Johanna], Hildebrandt 1761 (B, syn., K!, isosyn.) & Mayotte, Boivin 2865 (B, syn.); Madagascar, Nosy Be [Nossi-Bé], Keller (B, syn.) & Boivin (B, syn.)
Vittaria stuhlmannii Hieron. [family VITTARIACEAE], in E.J. 53: 421 (1915). Type: Mozambique, near Quelimane, Stuhlmann 1186 (B, holo.)
Vittaria zeylanica [family VITTARIACEAE], [sensu F.D.-O.A.: 51 (1929), non Fée]
Information
Epiphyte; rhizomes creeping, 3 mm diameter, with lanceolate entire to weakly pseudo-serrate hair-pointed clathrate very dark brown scales 3.5–6 mm long. Fronds shortly spaced, 0.3–2 cm apart, stipitate, hanging; lamina linear, 30–120(–?150) cm long, 0.5–1.3 cm wide, narrowed into a brown to greyish green stipe up to 7 cm long; midrib and veins rather obscure. Sori strictly marginal with narrow indusial flanges; paraphyses turbinate; spores bilateral-bean-shaped. Fig. 1/4.
Range
DISTR. K 7; T 3; P Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Comoro Is, Seychelle Is, Madagascar, India and Sri Lanka to Philippines, Polynesia
Altitude range
10–1050 m
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Shimba Hills, Marere Hill area, 7 Mar. 1968, Magogo & Glover 222! & Kurumuji and Mwachi, Mwana River valleys, 2 Aug. 1970, Faden & Evans 70/414! & Shimba Hills, 7 Mar. 1969, Faden et al. 69/486!TANZANIA Lushoto District E Usambara Mts, Gumbo, 13 Nov. 1935, Greenway 4163 & Sigi, 6 Mar. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 1430! & Derema, Hunga R., 30 Mar. 1974, R.B. & A.J. Faden 74/357!;TANZANIA Pemba I. Ngezi Forest, 9 Oct. 1927, Vaughan 739!
Notes
Faden has named material from K 7 and T 3 as V. zosterifolia Willd. (Sp. Pl. ed. 4, 5: 406 (1810); type: Réunion, Bory de St. Vincent (B, holo., microfiche!) = V. angustifrons Bory (1804), non Michx.). Tardieu-Blot (1953) keeps up both V. zosterifolia and V. hildebrandtii, distinguishing them by the spacing of the fronds and basal cells of the rhizome-scales. Kassner 177 (Kwale District, Shimba Hills, 1 Mar. 1902) and 397 (Kwale District, Makoni, 20 Mar. 1902) are probably V. elongata .Peter cites no specimens under V. elongata and his reference to Kilimanjaro must refer to some other species – perhaps V. volkensii. His reference to V. loricea Fée (described from Java) sounds from the key also like V. elongata but the localities, W Usambara, Mazumbai and S Pare Mts are not possible for this species. His material was at least partly probably V. guineensis .GENERAL Peter cites 36 specimens of Vittaria in F.D.-O.A., of which I have seen only 6, so his interpretations are in some cases conjecture.

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