ANEMIA angolensis Alston [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
ANEMIA angolensis Alston [family SCHIZAEACEAE], in Mendonça, Contr. Conhec. Fl. Mocamb. 2: 9, t. 2, 3a (1954); Mickel, Iowa State J. Sci. 36: 412, t. 22b (1962); Lawalrée, F.C.B., Schizaeaceae: 5, t. 1 (1970); Schelpe, F.Z., Pterid.: 54 (1970) & Expl. Hydrobiol. Bassin L. Bangweolo & Luapula 8(3), Pterid.: 32 (1973) & in C.F.A., Pterid.: 47, t. 6 (1977); Schelpe & Diniz, Fl. Moçamb., Pterid.: 46, t. 3 (1979); Kornaś, Distr. Ecol. Pterid. Zambia: 42, fig. 21b (1979); W. Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr.: 176, fig. 118 (1983); J.E. Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 59, fig. 55 (1990). Type: Angola, Huila, Morro de Monhino, Welwitsch 164 (BM!, holo., K!, iso.)
ANEMIA schimperiana [family SCHIZAEACEAE], [sensu Carruth. in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 2: 278 (1901); Bonap., Not. Ptérid. 10: 56 (1920) & 15: 51 (1924); Alston in J.B. 72, Suppl. Pterid.: 9 (1934); Demaret in B.J.B.B. 20: 57 (1950) & in Inst. Roy. Sc. Nat. Belg. Expl. Hydrobiol. Lac Tanganyika (1946–7) 4(2): 32 (1955), non C. Presl]
ANEMIA schimperiana Bonap. var. angustiloba [family SCHIZAEACEAE], Not. Ptérid. 1: 133 (1915). Type: Tanzania, Mpanda District, banks of L. Tanganyika, Karema, Lechaptois (P, holo.)
Hemianemia schimperiana (Bonap.) C.F. Reed var. angustiloba [family SCHIZAEACEAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 21: 162 (1947)
Anemia simii (Bonap.) Pic. Serm. var. angustiloba [family SCHIZAEACEAE], in Webbia 9: 654 (1954)
Information
Rhizome horizontal, up to 6 mm diameter, densely covered with light brown to reddish brown multicellular hairs up to 5 mm long. Stipe straw-coloured, 10–22 cm long, with brown multicellular hairs up to 2.5 mm long. Sterile lamina ovate-triangular to ovate- oblong, 7–16 cm long, 4–8.5 cm wide, 2–3-pinnatifid, hairy; sterile pinnae sessile to shortly petiolulate, sparsely hairy, the segments rounded, adnate, decurrent and minutely shallowly crenate. Fertile pinnae erect, shorter than to longer than the sterile part; petiolules to 5.5 cm long, the pinnae proper to 10 cm long, 3-pinnatifid; segments to 1 mm wide, long-pilose; rachis hairy. Fig. 2.
Range
DISTR. T 4, 6–8
Altitude range
600–1200 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Ufipa District Milepa, 20 Feb. 1950, Bullock 2506! & Ilomba Gap, 13 Mar. 1956, Kafuli 96!;TANZANIA Ulanga District Mahenge, Mbangala, 19 Feb. 1932, Schlieben 1775!;TANZANIA Songea District about 1.5 km W of Ruanda turn-off, 11 Apr. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 9607!
Distribution (external)
; Congo (Kinshasa)
Angola
Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Notes
Even A. angolensis does not seem to me very distinct from A. schimperiana. A. simii does have a distinct facies as well as glabrous fertile frond-segments, but the species are ill-defined, at least in Africa.
ANEMIA angolensis Alston [family SCHIZAEACEAE]
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