Asplenium lobatum Pappe & Raws. [family ASPLENIACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 0, Part 0, page 167, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Asplenium lobatum Pappe & Raws. [family ASPLENIACEAE], Syn. Fil. Afr. Austr.: 22 (1858). TAB. 53 fig. A. Type from S. Africa.
Asplenium gracile Pappe & Raws. [family ASPLENIACEAE], loc. cit. non D. Don (1825). Type from S. Africa.
Asplenium lunulatum var. gracile Sim [family ASPLENIACEAE], Ferns S. Afr.: 139, t. 67 fig. a-b (1892); op. cit. ed. 2: 146, t. 149 (1915). Type as above.
Asplenium erectum var. lobatum Pappe & Raws. Alston & Schelpe [family ASPLENIACEAE], in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 18: 161 (1952). Type as for Asplenium lobatum.
Asplenium erectum var. gracile Pappe & Raws. Tardieu [family ASPLENIACEAE], Fl. Madag., Polypod.: 222, t. 30 fig. 4–5 (1958). Type as for Asplenium gracile.
Information
Rhizome up to 7 mm. in diam., erect, with tufted fronds and with pale-brown clathrate lanceolate-acuminate entire rhizome-scales up to 6 mm. long. Frond erect, usually not proliferous but occasionally proliferating at the base of the lamina, membranous. Stipe matt-greyish-brown, up to 23 cm., glabrous except at the base with scales similar to those on the rhizome. Lamina up to 35 x 12 cm., narrowly elliptic in outline, apex acuminate, lower pinnae variously reduced, 2-pinnate to 4-pinnatifid, pinnae up to 9 x 3 cm., narrowly oblong-acute to lanceolate-acuminate; pinnules rhombic in outline, coarsely serrate or divided into 3-fid to 2-fid or linear acute lobes, glabrous on both surfaces. Rhachis matt-grey-brown with narrow green wings most of the length. Sori up to 4 mm. long, linear to oblong, 3–6 per pinnule; indusium linear to narrowly oblong, membranous, entire.
Habitat
Deeply shaded floors of moist forest
Altitude range
1460–1830 m.
1830
1460
Distribution
Mozambique MS Báruè, Serra de Chôa, 24.viii.1949, Pedro & Pedrógão 8034 (BM).Malawi S Mlanje Mt., 21.vii.1956, Newman & Whitmore 102 (BM; SRGH).Malawi C Dedza, Mulumduni, 31.iii.1961, Chapman 1201 (SRGH).Mozambique N Mt. Massangulo, vi.1933. Gomes e Sousa 1490 (COI).Malawi N Misuku Hills, 11.i.1959, Robinson 3170 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Umtali, Vumba Mts., 2.iv.1958, Chase 6865 (BM; BOL; K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa
Madagascar
Notes
Fragments of A. abyssinicum Fée, a species differing from A. lobatum by its very fragile fronds and shining castaneous rhachises, were reputedly collected by Sim at the Victoria Falls, but it has not been recorded from there since.
Asplenium lobatum Pappe & Raws. [family ASPLENIACEAE]
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