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PELLAEA involuta var. involuta [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
PELLAEA involuta var. involuta [family ADIANTACEAE] Pteris involuta Sw. [family ], in Schrad. J. Bot. 1800 2: 69 (1801) Allosorus involutus (Sw.) Presl [family ADIANTACEAE], Tent. Pterid.: 153 (1836) Pteridella involuta (Sw.) Kuhn [family ADIANTACEAE], in von der Decken, Reisen Ost Afr. 3, 3 Bot.: 15 (1879); Hieron. in P.O.A. C: 79 (1895) Pellaea viridis (Sw.) Schelpe var. involuta [family ADIANTACEAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot. Sér. 2, 41: 214 (1967) & in Contr. Bolus Herb. 1: 83 (1969) & in F.Z., Pterid.: 136 (1970) Cheilanthes involuta (Sw.) Schelpe & N.C. Anthony [family ADIANTACEAE], in Contr. Bolus Herb. 10: 155 (1982); N.C. Anthony in Contr. Bolus Herb. 11: 129 (1984); Schelpe & N.C. Anthony, F.S.A., Pterid.: 128 (1986) Cheilanthes involuta var. involuta [family ADIANTACEAE], ; N.C. Anthony in Contr. Bolus Herb. 11: 130, t. 27 (1984); Schelpe & N.C. Anthony, F.S.A., Pterid.: 128, fig. 40/1 (1986)
Range
DISTR. K 7; T 3
Altitude range
90–450 m
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Kwale–Tanzania, 3 June 1969, Napper 2180!KENYA Mombasa, Sept. 1873, Kirk s.n.!;KENYA Kilifi District Ribe to Galla Country, May 1880, Wakefield s.n.!TANZANIA Lushoto District Near Nyussi, Gonja Mt, Oct. 1905, Braun AH 960!
Distribution (external)
South Africa (S Cape Province)
Notes
Schippers op. cit. reports that what is presumably the typical variety is uncommon in the Pare Mts and W Usambaras.
PELLAEA involuta var. involuta [family ADIANTACEAE]
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