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Athyrium schimperi

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Identification
Athyrium schimperi Moug. ex Fée [family DRYOPTERIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Asplenium schimperi
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  • Athyrium solenopteris
  • Athyrium schimperi

Flora

Entry for ATHYRIUM schimperi Fée [family WOODSIACEAE]
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, (2003) Author: BERNARD VERDCOURT
Names
ATHYRIUM schimperi Fée [family WOODSIACEAE], Mém. Fougères 5, Gen. Fil.: 187 (1852); V.E. 2: 23 (1908); Sim, Ferns S. Afr., ed. 2: 133, t. 41 (1915); Tardieu, Mém. I.F.A.N. 28: 161, t. 30, fig. 3, 4 (sphalm. 5, 6) (1953); Alston, Ferns W.T.A.: 64 (1959); Tardieu, Fl. Cameroun 3: 229, t. 35, fig. 3, 4 (1964); Schelpe, F.Z. Pterid: 202, t. 57/b (1970) & C.F.A., Pterid.: 162 (1977); Kornaś, Distr. Ecol. Pterid. Zambia: 105 (1979); W. Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr.: 404, fig. 303 (1983); Pic. Serm. in B.J.B.B. 55: 155 (1983); Schelpe & N.C. Anthony, F.S.A. Pterid. : 223, fig. 75 (1986); J. Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 273, t. 46/1, fig. 65/278, 278a (1970); Schippers in Fern Gaz. 14 (6): 205 (1993); Faden in U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 33 (1994). Type: Ethiopia, Debra Eski, “3000 m” Schimper 239 (B, syn., K!, photo., US, iso.)
Asplenium schimperi (Fée) A. Braun [family ASPLENIACEAE], in Schweinf., Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 1: 224 (1867)
Information
Rhizome creeping, 6 mm in diameter, with reddish brown lanceolate and acuminate scales 7 mm long, 1 mm wide but often some much narrower. Fronds closely spaced, up to ± 1 m tall; stipe dark brown at base, 14–38 cm long, glabrous but with scales similar to rhizome scales at base. Lamina oblong-lanceolate in outline, 23–70 cm long, (6–)10–28 cm wide, acute to acuminate, virtually to quite bipinnate, the pinnules mostly narrowly decurrent; pinnae in 15–20 pairs, lanceolate in outline, 4–18 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide, attenuate, the basal pair usually markedly smaller and distant; rhachis straw-coloured; pinnules in 7–18 pairs, narrowly oblong, 5–22 mm long, 2–8 mm wide, sharply serrate-dentate or deeply lobed and lobes serrate. Sori oblong, curved or J-shaped, 1–1.5 mm long, 1–7 per pinnule-lobe and 14–70 per pinnule; indusia pale brown, membranous, erose. Fig. 3 (page 9).
Range
DISTR. U 1; K 3; T 1 (see note) 4, 7
Altitude range
2100–2400 m
Distribution
KENYA Trans-Nzoia District Mt Elgon, Suam Saw Mill track, edge of Kiptogot River Valley, 12 June 1971, Faden et al. 71/452! & Kiptogot waterfall, Aug. 1959, Tweedie 1882! & Oct. 1961, Tweedie 1882A!TANZANIA Ufipa District Nsanga Mt, Malonje Plateau, 13 Mar. 1959, Richards 12119!;TANZANIA Mbeya District Mbeya Range, Nov. 1957, Watermeyer 12!;TANZANIA Rungwe District Kyimbila, Mbaka, 13 Apr. 1912, Stolz 1220!UGANDA Karamoja District Mt Kadam, Apr. 1959, Wilson 788!
Distribution (external)
Ghana
Nigeria
Cameroon
Congo (Kinshasa)
Rwanda
Burundi
Sudan
Ethiopia
Angola
Zambia
Malawi
Zimbabwe
eastern S Africa
India (Himalayas)
Notes
Many specimens lack rhizomes. The record fromU1 needs confirming from material with a rhizome. Gillman 363 fromT1 (Bukoba District, Kaagya), also without a rhizome is probably this species.

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