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Identification
Adiantum philippense L. [family PTERIDOPHYTA ]
Related name
  • Adiantum philippense
Common name
  • wild tea leaves (Huxley), walking maidenhair fern (India, Ambasta)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 5

Flora

Entry for ADIANTUM lunulatum Burm.f. [family ADIANTACEAE]
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, (2002) Author: BERNARD VERDCOURT
Names
ADIANTUM lunulatum Burm.f. [family ADIANTACEAE], Fl. Ind.: 235 (1768); Hook. & Bak., Syn. Fil.: 114 (1867) pro parte; Kuhn, Fil. Afr.: 65 (1868); Hieron. in P.O.A. C: 78 (1895) & in V.E. 2: 43, fig. 35/a, b (1908); Sim, Ferns S. Afr. ed. 2: 243, t. 119 (1915); Bonap., Notes Ptérid. 1: 87 (1915) & 7: 211, 218 (1918); Ogata, Ic. Fil. Jap.: 52, t. 204 (1933). Type: Rheede, Hort. Malab. 12: 72, t. 40 (1703)! & Petiver, Gazophylacium, t. 54/10 (1767) (copied from Rheede)! & a specimen from Java with no details cited (G, syn.)
Pteris lunulata (Burm.f.) Retz. [family ], Obs. Bot. 2: 28, t. 4 (1781)
Adiantum lunatum Cav. [family ADIANTACEAE], Descr. Pl. 1: 272 (1801). Type: Marianna & Philippine Is. & Mexico, Acapulco, Née s.n. (MA, syntypes)
Adiantum philippense [family ADIANTACEAE], sensu Peter, F.D.-O.A: 43 (1929); Alston in J.B. 72, Suppl. Pterid.: 7 (1934); Tardieu in Mém. I.F.A.N. 28: 94 (1953); Pic. Serm. in Webbia 12: 665, fig. 4, 5 (1957); Tardieu, Fl. Madag. 5 (1): 125, fig. 18/1, 2 (1958); Alston, Ferns W.T.A.: 39 (1959); Verdc. in Journ. E.A. Nat. Hist. Soc. 24: 38, fig. 3g (1962); Tardieu, Fl. Cameroun 3: 143, t. 19/1 (1964); Schelpe in Contr. Bolus Herb. 1: 54 (1969) & F.Z., Pterid.: 110, t. 36/G (1970); Lye in Uganda Journ. 34: 66, fig. 1/a,b (1970); Schelpe, C.F.A., Pterid.: 87 (1977); Schelpe & M.A. Diniz, Fl. Moçamb., Pterid.: 108 (1979); Kornaś, Distr. Ecol. Pterid. Zambia: 64, fig. 37a (1979); W. Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr.: 225, fig. 158, map 54 (1983); Schelpe & M.C. N.C. Anthony, F.S.A., Pterid.: 100, map 77 (1986); J.E. Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 120, t. 18/4, figs. 120, 120a, map (1990); Schippers in Fern Gaz. 14: 183 (1993); Shieh in Fl. Taiwan 1 (ed. 2): 241, t. 100 (1994), non L. Type: Petiver Gazophylacium 1, t. 4, fig 4! supposedly drawn from a specimen now in Herb. Sloane 163 fig. 21, sent by Kamel to Petiver from the Philippines
Information
Rhizome short, suberect or creeping, with scales dark brown, subulate, ± 3 mm long. Fronds tufted, erect, (10–)30–45 cm long, simply pinnate, often budding at the tips; stipe and rhachis dark brown or black-purple, shiny, glabrous; pinnae alternate, rectangular to fan-shaped, 2–5 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, the upper and outer margins lobulate, the lower entire, often breaking off at maturity, glabrous; pinna-stalklets 0.2–2.5(–4) cm long, delicate, those of lower pinnae longer. Sori narrowly oblong, 0.4–2.5 cm wide. Fig. 13/3 (p. 51).
Range
DISTR. U 1; K 7; T 3, 4, 6–8 : pantropical and subtropical, including Cape Verde Is., Sierra Leone to Angola, São Tomé, Congo (Kinshasa), Sudan, Ethiopia, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Comoro Is., Madagascar; Asia, Australia, Polynesia, Central and S America
Altitude range
150–1400 m
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Shimba Hills, Mkongani, 7 May 1992, Luke 3147!TANZANIA Buha District Gombe Stream Reserve, Kasakela, 17 Nov. 1962, Verdcourt 3341!;TANZANIA Ulanga District near Kiberege, Mar. 1960, Haerdi 482/0!;TANZANIA Songea District SW of Kitai, near R. Mkaku, 9 Feb. 1936, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 9074!UGANDA West Nile District about 1 km SE of Metu Rest Camp, 15 Sept. 1953, Chancellor 275!UGANDA Acholi District Payera Reserve, Oct. 1937, Sangster 393!
Notes
Despite the arguments of Pichi Sermolli there seems to be no doubt that the drawing (Petiver, Gazophylacium Naturae 1, t. 4, fig. 4c (1702) on which Linnaeus based Adiantum philippense really cannot represent the fern described above and may not even be a fern. I am grateful to Dr B. Zimmer (pers. comm.) for convincing me of this.

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