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VITTARIA isoetifolia Bory [family VITTARIACEAE]

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, (1999) Author: B. Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
VITTARIA isoetifolia Bory [family VITTARIACEAE], Voy. Quatre Princ. Iles 2: 325 (1804); Fée, Mém. Fam. Foug.: 19, t. 2/3 (1850–51); Hieron. in E.J. 28: 346 (1900); Sim, Ferns S. Afr., ed. 2: 267, t. 149/1 (1915); F.D.-O.A.: 51 (1929); C. Chr. in Dansk Bot. Arkiv.: 144, t. 55/2 (1932); Reimers in N.B.G.B. 11: 928 (1933); Tardieu, Fl. Madag. 5(1): 176 (1958); Schelpe in Contr. Bolus Herb. 1: 21 (1969) & F.Z., Pterid.: 94, t. 29/B (1970); Schelpe & Diniz, Fl. Moçamb., Pterid.: 95 (1979); W. Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr.: 213, fig. 149/a–b (1983); Schelpe & N.C. Anthony, F.S.A., Pterid.: 89, fig. 25, map 70 (1986); J.E. Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 108, t. 16/5, fig. 108, map (1990). Type: Réunion, Bory de St. Vincent (P, holo., B- WILLD., ?iso., microfiche!)
VITTARIA gueinzii Trevis. [family VITTARIACEAE], in Atti Ist. Veneto, II, 2: 167 (1851). Type: South Africa, ? (? GE, holo.)
VITTARIA sarmentosa Fée [family VITTARIACEAE], Mém. Fam. Foug. 3: 17 (1852). Type: South Africa, Durban, Gueinzius (ubi?, syn., K!, S, isosyn.) & Cape Province [Cap. Bon. Spei], Mundt & Maire (ubi?, syn.) & Drège (ubi?, syn., BM!, K!, isosyn.)
VITTARIA tenera Fée [family VITTARIACEAE], Mém. Fam. Foug. 3: 17, t. 2/1 (1852). Type: South Africa, Durban, Gueinzius (ubi?, holo.)
VITTARIA longidentata Müll. Berol. [family VITTARIACEAE], in Bot. Zeit. 12: 546, t. 13/2 (1854). Type: South Africa, Cape of Good Hope, Gueinzius (ubi?)
Pteropsis angustifolia [family POLYPODIACEAE], [sensu Pappe & Rawson, Syn. Fil. Afr. Austr.: 43 (1858), non Desv. (1827)]
Oetosis isoetifolia (Bory) Greene [family ], in Pittonia 4: 106 (1900)
Information
Epiphyte; rhizomes shortly creeping, 3 mm diameter, with narrowly lanceolate attenuate clathrate strongly pseudoserrate dark brown scales up to 1 cm long. Fronds tufted, simple, sessile, hanging; lamina linear, ± 8–65 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, pale brown to grey-green at the base when dry; midrib and venation obscure. Sori in 2 deep intramarginal grooves; paraphyses intestiniform; spores bilateral, oval, monolete, smooth with laesura 2/3 their length. Fig. 1/3.
Range
DISTR. K 7; T 6
Altitude range
1500–2100 m
Distribution
KENYA Teita District Mbololo Hill, 31 Dec. 1971, Faden et al. 71/1023!TANZANIA Morogoro District Uluguru Mts, Bondwa, 26 Sept. 1970, Faden et al. 70/653! & NW Uluguru Mts, Lupanga, 9 Nov. 1932, Schlieben 2947
Distribution (external)
; Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
South Africa
Comoro Is
Madagascar
Mascarenes
Notes
Tardieu-Blot describes the midrib as just visible to sometimes distinct in lower half of lamina.
VITTARIA isoetifolia Bory [family VITTARIACEAE]
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