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ASPIDOTIS schimperi (Kunze) Pic. Serm. [family ADIANTACEAE]

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, (2002) Author: BERNARD VERDCOURT
Names
ASPIDOTIS schimperi (Kunze) Pic. Serm. [family ADIANTACEAE], in Webbia 7: 326 (1950); Alston, Ferns W.T.A.: 44 (1959); Schelpe in Contrib. Bolus Herb. 1: 84 (1969) & F.Z., Pterid.: 113, t. 37/a (1970) & Expl. Hydrobiol. Bassin L. Bangweolo & Luapula 8 (3) Ptérid.: 55 (1973); W. Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr.: 233, fig. 166 (1983); J.E. Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 126, t. 195, fig. 35/128, 128a (1990); Schippers in Fern Gaz. 14: 182 (1993); Faden in U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 18 (1994). Type: Ethiopia, Schimper s.n. (LZ†, holo. K, iso.?) Cheilanthes schimperi Kunze [family ADIANTACEAE], Farnkr. 1: 52, t. 26 (1840); Hook., Syn. Fil.: 133 (1867); Hieron. in P.O.A. C: 29 (1895) Hypolepis schimperi (Kunze) Hook. [family DENNSTAEDTIACEAE], Sp. Fil. 2: 70 (1852); Hieron. in V.E. 2: 40, fig. 34 (1908); Sim, Ferns S. Afr. ed. 2: 239, t. 117 (1915); De Wild, Pl. Bequaert. 2 (2): 162 (1923); F.D.-O.A.: 42 (1929); De Wild. & Staner, Contr. Et. Fl. Katanga, Suppl. 4: 1 (1932)
Information
Rhizome scales 3–4 mm long. Fronds few, tufted or closely spaced, 15–50 cm tall; stipe 2–28 cm long; lamina triangular-ovate to broadly ovate, 5–20 cm long, 8–25 cm wide, 3-pinnate with pinnules deeply pinnatifid; lowest pair of pinnae about equalling rest of lamina and well developed basiscopically; pinnules triangular in outline, 1.7–2 cm long, 0.8–1 cm wide, deeply pinnatifid into ± 9 toothed narrowly oblong ultimate segments, ± 8 mm long, 2 mm wide. Sori pale, ± 1 mm long with minute ovate crenate indusium. Fig. 1 (p. 3).
Range
DISTR. U 1; K 2; T 4, 6 (Usagara, fide Hieronymus), 7, 8
Altitude range
1100–2400 m
Distribution
KENYA West Suk District Kacheliba, Mar. 1950, H.D. van Someren 633!TANZANIA Buha/Kigoma District Kasakela Reserve, near Gombe Stream, 17 Nov. 1962, Verdcourt 3351!;TANZANIA Ufipa District Milepa, 20 Feb. 1950, Bullock 2502!;TANZANIA Chunya District Igila Hill, Kepembawe, 22 Mar. 1965, Richards 19810!UGANDA Acholi District Lotuturu, 6 June 1963, Kertland 402!;UGANDA Karamoja District Labwor, 6 June 1940, A.S. Thomas 3725! & Mt. Kadam, May 1959, Wilson 733!
Distribution (external)
; N Nigeria Cameroon Congo (Kinshasa) Sudan Ethiopia Eritrea Zambia Malawi Zimbabwe
ASPIDOTIS schimperi (Kunze) Pic. Serm. [family ADIANTACEAE]
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