Xiphopteris flabelliformis Poir. Schelpe [family GRAMMITIDACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 0, Part 0, page 141, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Xiphopteris flabelliformis Poir. Schelpe [family GRAMMITIDACEAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 41: 217 (1967). TAB. 44 fig. B. Lectotype from Réunion.
Polypodium flabelliforme Poir. [family GRAMMITIDACEAE], in Lam., Encycl. Méth. Bot., 5: 519 (1804). Type as above.
Polypodium rigescens Bory ex Willd. [family GRAMMITIDACEAE], in L., Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 5: 184 (1810). Type from Réunion.
Ctenopteris rigescens Bory ex Willd. J. Sm. [family GRAMMITIDACEAE], Hist. Fil.: 184 (1875).—Tardieu, Fl. Camér., 3 Ptérid.: 327, t. 52 fig. 1–3 (1964). Type as above.
Xiphopteris rigescens Bory ex Willd. Alston [family GRAMMITIDACEAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 30: 26 (19S6). Type as above.
Grammitis flabelliformis Poir. Morton [family GRAMMITIDACEAE], in Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 38: 57 (1967). Type as for Xiphopteris flabelliformis.
Information
Rhizome creeping, with spaced fronds and with metallic grey-brown lanceolate acuminate rhizome-scales up to 4 mm. long. Frond pinnatifid, stipitate, sub-coriaceous to coriaceous. Stipe light-brown to black, up to 6 cm. long, very narrowly winged. Lamina up to 21 x 1 cm., linear in outline, glabrous on both sides, decrescent below, pinnatifid to the midrib into rounded oblong to quadrate lobes up to 6 mm. long; midrib black, veins usually obscure. Sori 1–6 per lobe, intramarginal, set with castaneous hair-like paraphyses.
Habitat
Epiphytic in montane, forest or lithophytic on shaded rock faces
Altitude range
at altitudes between 2200 m. and 2350 m.
2350
2200
Distribution
Malawi S Mlanje Mt., Luchenya Plateau, 3.vii.1946, Brass 16655 (K).Mozambique MS Chimanimani Mts., Nhamadura Summit, 18.iv.1960, Goodier & Phipps 367 (SRGH).Malawi N Nyika Plateau, 6.viii.1946, Brass 17242 (K).Zimbabwe E Chimanimani Mts., 11.ii.1958, Mitchell 366 (BM; BOL; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Cameroon
Fernando Po
Congo
Uganda
Kenya
Tanzania
S. Africa (Natal)
Réunion
tropical America
Xiphopteris flabelliformis Poir. Schelpe [family GRAMMITIDACEAE]
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