ANTROPHYUM boryanum (Willd.) C. Chr. var. obtusum [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
ANTROPHYUM boryanum (Willd.) C. Chr. var. obtusum [family VITTARIACEAE], in Dansk Bot. Arkiv. 7: 146 (1932); Tardieu, Fl. Madag. 5(1): 175, fig. 24/13 (1958); Schelpe in Contr. Bolus Herb. 1: 19 (1969). Type: Réunion, Bory de St. Vincent (B-WILLD, holo., microfiche!)
Hemionitis obtusa Willd. [family ADIANTACEAE], Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 5: 127 (1810)
Antrophyum obtusum (Willd.) Spreng. [family VITTARIACEAE], Syst. Veg., ed. 16, 4: 67 (1827)
Information
Frond lamina rounded at apex, long-decurrent at base, sessile or subsessile.
Range
DISTR. T 6, 7
Altitude range
± 1920 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Kilosa District Ukaguru Mts, Mamiwa Forest Reserve, summit to E of Ikwamba Peak, 15 Aug. 1972, Mabberley & Salehe 1467!;TANZANIA Rungwe, 24 Aug. 1911, Stolz 848!
Distribution (external)
; Comoro Is
Madagascar
Réunion
Mauritius
Notes
Tardieu-Blot describes the spores of A. boryanum as ‘depressed tetrahedral with convex faces finely punctate’ but her fig. 24/12 shows a monolete ellipsoid spore and paraphyses with long slender stalks and obconic heads. My observations on Mabberley & Salehe 1467 show monolete ellipsoid spores but much shorter paraphyses with large dark red or black globose heads.
ANTROPHYUM boryanum (Willd.) C. Chr. var. obtusum [family VITTARIACEAE]
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