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ANTROPHYUM immersum (Willd.) Hook. & Baker [family VITTARIACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 immersum (Willd.) Hook. & Baker [family VITTARIACEAE], Syn. Fil.: 393 (1868); Mett. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 4: 171 (1869); Cordem., Fl. Réunion (1): 80 (1891); Hieron. in P.O.A. C: 81 (1895); V.E. 2: 49 (1908); F.D.-O.A.: 52 (1929); C. Chr. in Dansk Bot. Arkiv. 7: 145 (1932); Tardieu, Fl. Madag. 5(1): 173 (1958); Alston, Ferns W.T.A.: 35 (1959); Schelpe in Contr. Bolus Herb. 1: 19 (1969); Tryon & Lugardon, Spores of Pteridophyta: 202, fig. 67/7 (1990). Type: Réunion, Bory de St. Vincent (B-WILLD, holo., microfiche!) Hemionitis immersa Willd. [family ADIANTACEAE], Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 5: 127 (1810)
Information
Epiphyte; rhizome short; scales lanceolate, the margins with short processes, long-tapering, the cells with red-brown walls. Fronds tufted; lamina oblanceolate to obovate, 3–19 cm long, 1.5–3.5 cm wide, acute to rounded at the apex, narrowly decurrent at the base into a stipe 0.5–5 cm long; juvenile fronds very rounded; midrib only apparent at the extreme base. Sori deeply immersed in narrow grooves, widely reticulate; paraphyses red-brown, capitate, thickened at apex; spores trilete, globose-tetrahedral.
Range
DISTR. U 4; T 3, 6
Altitude range
750–1200 m
Distribution
UGANDA Mengo District Mabira Forest, Dec. 1922, Maitland 469! & Mulange, Aug. 1922, Dummer 5606! & Mpanga Forest, 20 June 1963, Kertland !TANZANIA Lushoto District Amani, 14 Sept. 1929, Glynne 222! & Amani, 13 Nov. 1935, Greenway 4161! & Derema, 30 Mar. 1974, R.B. & A.J. Faden 74/353!;TANZANIA Morogoro District Nguru Mts, river valley behind Mhonda Mission, 6 Feb. 1971, Mabberley & Pócs 693!
Distribution (external)
; Liberia Comoro Is Réunion Mauritius Madagascar
Notes
Tardieu-Blot incorrectly describes the spores as bilateral reniform and monolete.
ANTROPHYUM immersum (Willd.) Hook. & Baker [family VITTARIACEAE]
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