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Grammitis synsora

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Name

Identification
Grammitis synsora (Baker) Copel. [family GRAMMITIDACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Grammitis synsora
  • Polypodium synsorum
  • Grammitis poolii

Flora

Entry for Grammitis synsora (Baker) Copel. [family GRAMMITIDACEAE]
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, (2005) Author: B. S. Parris
Names
Grammitis synsora (Baker) Copel. [family GRAMMITIDACEAE], in Philipp.J. Sci. 80(2): 137 (1952); Tardieu, Fl. Madag., Polypod.2: 75 (1960); R.J. Johns, Pterid. Trop. E. Afr.: 48 (1991); Schippers in Fern Gaz. 14(5): 192 (1993). Type: Madagascar, Antananarivo, Gilpin s.n. (K!, holo.)
Polypodium synsorum Baker [family POLYPODIACEAE], in J.L.S. 16: 203– 204 (1877); Christensen in Dansk Bot. Arkiv 7: 150– 151, t. 56, f. 11, 12 (1932)
Information
Rhizome short-creeping to long-creeping, branched, stipes 1– 8 mm apart in each row; scales lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, dark brown to blackish, glabrous, clathrate, cells in centre of scales 1– 2×longer than wide. Stipes 2– 7 mm long, with whitish to pale red-brown simple eglandular hairs (0.2– 1 mm long). Lamina narrowly oblanceolate, 18– 29 mm long, 3– 5 mm wide, obtuse at apex, long-attenuate at base, sometimes glabrous, usually with whitish simple eglandular hairs 0.4– 1 mm long on abaxial surface of lamina in soral area; lateral veins simple, each vein-ending marked by a round to slightly elongate hydathode on adaxial surface of lamina, free. Sori in apical 1/5 to 1/2 of lamina, 1– 8 in each row. Fig. 1/5– 1/6.
Range
T 6
Altitude range
1450– 1950 m
Distribution
Tanzania Morogoro District Northern Nguru, Kanga Mountain, 2 Dec. 1987, Lovett & Thomas 2807 pro parte! & Nguru Mts, ridge of pass between Mhonde Mission and Maskati Mission, 24 Jan. 1987, Schippers & De Boer T 1713! & Nguru Mts, E slopes above Kwamanga Village, 06°10'S 37°35'E, 5 Feb. 1971, Mabberley 676A!
Distribution (external)
; Madagascar
Notes
Specimens from Tanzania have sparser lamina hairs than Madagascan material; sometimes the fronds are glabrous, or the distinctive pale hairs around and within the sori are not visible at maturity.

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