BOLBITIS gemmifera (Hieron.) C.Chr. [family LOMARIOPSIDACEAE]

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, (2002) Author: JOHN T. MICKEL
Names
BOLBITIS gemmifera (Hieron.) C.Chr. [family LOMARIOPSIDACEAE], Ind. Fil., Suppl. 3: 48 (1934); Tardieu in Mém. I.F.A.N. 28: 113, t. 19/3 (1953); Alston, Ferns W.T.A.: 68 (1959); Tardieu, Fl. Cameroun 3, Ptérid.: 320, t. 51/3 (1964); Schelpe, C.F.A. Pterid.: 172 (1977); J.E. Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 294, fig. 69/300, t. 49/5, map (1990); R.J. Johns, Pterid. Trop. E. Afr.: 82 (1991). Lectotype: Angola, Cuanza Norte, Golungo Alto, Welwitsch 157 (B, holo., K!, iso.)
Leptochilus gemmifer Hieron. [family POLYPODIACEAE], in E.J. 46: 345 (1911)
Campium gemmiferum (Hieron.) Copel. [family LOMARIOPSIDACEAE], in Phil. Journ. Sci. 38: 397, fig. 48 (1928)
Information
Rhizome short-creeping, 4–7 mm diameter; rhizome scales deltate-lanceolate, 3–4 mm long, opaque to subclathrate, dark brown to black, margin subentire with irregular small teeth; fronds ± 1 cm distant, 20–95 cm long; stipe 1/3–1/2 the sterile frond length, light to medium brown, with scales at base, glabrous distally. Sterile blade 25–36 cm long, 17–30 cm wide; pinnae in (4–)7–9(–12) pairs, 10–18 cm long, 2–4.4 cm wide, distal pinnae not adnate, apical pinna conform, with bud at base; lower pinnae stalked, stalk 1–10 mm, entire to shallowly lobed; veins netted with very few included veinlets recurrent and excurrent. Fertile fronds nearly equalling the sterile in length; stipe 1/3–2/3 the fertile frond length; pinnae 5–8.6 cm long, 0.8–1.2 cm wide; bud occasionally at base of terminal pinnae; sori acrostichoid. Fig. 2/1–4 (page 5).
Range
DISTR. U 2–4; T 3, 4, 6–8
Altitude range
650–1350 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Pare District Muheza, Bonde Forest Reserve, 13 Jan. 1987, Ruffo & Mmari 2090!;TANZANIA Kigoma District Kasye Forest, 18 Mar. 1994, Bidgood, Mbago & Vollesen 2789!;TANZANIA Lindi District Rondo Plateau, Rondo Forest Reserve, 14 Feb. 1991, Bidgood, Abdallah & Vollesen 1555!UGANDA Toro District Kibale National Park, 1 km NW of Ngogo camp, 17 June 1997, Poulsen 1312!;UGANDA Mengo District West of Kisubi on Kampala–Entebbe Road, 7 Sept. 1969, Faden 69/956!;UGANDA Masaka District Towa Forest, Sese, 30 June 1935, Thomas 1344!
Distribution (external)
; Senegal
Guinea
Sierra Leone
Liberia
Ivory Coast
Ghana
Benin
Nigeria
Cameroon
Gabon
Central African Republic
Congo (Kinshasa)
Burundi
Angola
Zambia
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Notes
Bolbitis gemmifera is distinct by its having a bud at the base of the terminal pinna.
BOLBITIS gemmifera (Hieron.) C.Chr. [family LOMARIOPSIDACEAE]
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