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SCHIZAEA pectinata (L.) Sw. [family SCHIZAEACEAE]

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, (2000) Author: B. VERDCOURT, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
SCHIZAEA pectinata (L.) Sw. [family SCHIZAEACEAE], in J. Bot. (Schrader) 1800, 2: 102 (1801); C. Chr., Ind. Fil.: 617 (1906); Sim, Ferns S. Afr., ed. 2: 301, t. 159/1 (1915); C. Chr. in Dansk Bot. Arkiv 7: 174 (1932); Tardieu, Fl. Madag. 8: 2 (1952); Schelpe, F.Z., Pterid.: 52, t. 14 (1970); Schelpe & Diniz, Fl. Moçamb., Pterid.: 46 (1979); W. Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr.: 173, fig. 115, map (1983); Schelpe & N.C. Anthony, F.S.A., Pterid.: 51, fig. 14/1, map (1986); J.E. Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 56, t. 8/2, fig. 53, map (1990); Kramer in Kubitzki, Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. 1: 261, fig. 131/c & 132/c–f (1990). Type: drawing of a Hermann specimen from South Africa, Cape of Good Hope, Moris, Hist. 3: 233, S8 t. 9/30 (1699) (lecto.!, chosen here)
Acrostichum pectinatum L. [family PTERIDACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 1068 (1753); Sm. in Mém. Acad. Roy. Sci. (Turin) 5: 422 (1793)
Schizaea tenella [family SCHIZAEACEAE], [sensu Reimers in N.B.G.B. 11: 395 (1932), non Kaulf.]
Information
Rhizome 4 mm in diameter with hairs up to 5 mm long. Fronds very closely placed, linear-filiform, 7.5–20 cm long, 1–2 mm wide, sulcate, narrowly winged; stipe brown, filiform; fertile portion 0.4–1.7 cm long with a recurved rachis and 10–15 fertile pinnae up to 5–12 mm long, 1 mm wide, the shortest at the base and apex of the fertile portion, ciliate with pale hairs; sporangia in a row on either side of the costa. Fig. 1.
Range
DISTR. T 7 also one sheet from Madagascar
Altitude range
in F.Z. area in montane grassland; 450–900 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Rungwe District Rungwe, Mbaka, 17 Feb. 1912, Stolz 1130!
Distribution (external)
; Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
South Africa
SCHIZAEA pectinata (L.) Sw. [family SCHIZAEACEAE]
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