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Cheilanthes farinosa

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Identification
Cheilanthes dealbata D.Don [family PTERIDACEAE ] Verified by Christopher Roy Fraser-Jenkins, Cheilanthes farinosa (Forssk.) Kaulf. [family PTERIDACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Aleuritopteris chihuahuensis
  • Aleuritopteris decursiva
  • Aleuritopteris flava
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  • Cheilanthes farinosa
  • Aleuritopteris afra
  • Aleuritopteris farinosa
  • Aleuritopteris centrafricana
  • Doryopteris unrecorded
  • Aleuritopteris mexicana
  • Aleuritopteris gymnocarpa
  • Pteris farinosa
  • Cheilanthes dealbata
  • Aleuritopteris leptophylla
  • Aleuritopteris aethiopica

Flora

Entry for Cheilanthes farinosa Forsk. Kaulf. [family ADIANTACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 0, Part 0, page 98, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Cassebeera farinosa Forsk. J. Sm. [family ADIANTACEAE], in Hook., Lond. Journ. Bot. 4: 159 (1841). Type as above.
Aleuritopteris farinosa Forsk. Fée [family ADIANTACEAE], Mém. Fam. Foug. 5: 154, t. 12 B fig. 1 (1852). Type as above.
Pteris farinosa Forsk. [family ADIANTACEAE], Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: CXXIV, 187 (1775). Type as above.
Allosorus farinosus Forsk. C. Presl [family ADIANTACEAE], Tent. Pterid.: 153 (1836) reimpr. in Abh. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss., Ser. 4, 5: 153 (1837). Type as above.
Cheilanthes farinosa Forsk. Kaulf. [family ADIANTACEAE], Enum. Fil.: 212 (1824).—Sim, Ferns S. Afr. ed. 2: 235, t. 114 (1915). Type from Yemen.
Information
Rhizome up to 1 cm. in diam., erect, with tufted fronds and with dark-brown subulate entire rhizome-scales up to 7 mm. long with paler margins. Stipe castaneous, up to 28 cm. long, glabrous or with scales similar to the larger rhizome scales towards the base. Frond arching, thinly coriaceous or firmly herbaceous. Lamina up to 39 x 18 cm., oblong, acute in outline, 2–3-pinnatifid, dark-green above, the lower surface covered with pale-yellow to whitish powder; upper pinnae oblong, becoming unequally deltate towards the base of the lamina; pinna segments oblong and rounded or pinnatifid into oblong rounded minutely crenate lobes; rhachis and the under surface of the costae and costule castaneous, glabrous. Sori minute, c. 1 mm. in diam., closely set along the margins of the pinna segments; indusium small, semi-transparent, variously lacerate.
Habitat
Mostly in undergrowth of moist forest
Range
Widespread in tropical Africa
Altitude range
c. 900 m.
900
900
Distribution
Zimbabwe E 9.6 km. N. of Inyanga Village, 28.iv.1967, Rushworth 863 (SRGH).Zimbabwe C Salisbury Distr., Gilnockie Farm, 14.vii.1958, Mitchell 448 (SRGH).Zambia S Victoria Falls north bank, 28.viii.1947, Greenway & Brenan 7998 (BK; K).Malawi N Mafinga Hills, 15.vii.1963, Chapman 1867 (BOL; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Victoria Falls, Rain Forest, 6.vii.1953, Schelpe 3930 (B; BM; BOL; K; P).Zambia W Zambezi Rapids, 28.x.1966, Leach & Williamson 13517 (SRGH).

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