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PELLAEA quadripinnata (Forssk.) Prantl [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 quadripinnata (Forssk.) Prantl [family ADIANTACEAE], in E.J. 3: 420 (1882); Hieron. in V.E. 2: 39 (1908); Sim, Ferns S. Afr. ed. 2: 202, t. 192 (1915); F.D.-O.A.: 39 (1929); Tardieu in Mém. I.F.A.N. 28: 92, t. 14, fig. 5 (1953) & Fl. Madag. 5 (1): 166, t. 23, fig. 7 (1958); Alston, Ferns W.T.A.: 44 (1959); Schelpe in Contr. Bolus Herb. 1: 81 (1969) & F.Z., Pterid.: 133, t. 41 (1970); Schelpe & Diniz, Fl. Moçamb. Pterid.: 136 (1979); W. Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr.: 288, fig. 206a, 206b (1983); Schippers in Fern Gaz. 14: 181 (1993); Faden in U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 18 (1994); Miller in Miller & Cope, Fl. Arab. Pen. & Socotra 1: 49 (1996); Wood, Handb. Yemen Fl.: 57 (1997). Type: Yemen, Al Hadiyah [Hadie], Forsskål s.n. (material apparently lost) Pteris quadripinnata Forssk. [family ], Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 186 (1775); Kaulf., Enum. Fil.: 191 (1824) Allosorus quadripinnatus (Forssk.) Presl [family ADIANTACEAE], Tent. Pterid.: 154 (1836) Cheilanthes quadripinnata (Forssk.) Kuhn [family ADIANTACEAE], Fil. Afr.: 74 (1868); N.C. Anthony in Contr. Bolus Herb. 11: 172 (1984); Schelpe & N.C. Anthony, F.S.A., Pterid.: 133, fig. 43 (1986); J.E. Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 149, t. 24/5, fig. 35/151, 151a (1990) Pteridella quadripinnata (Forssk.) Kuhn [family ADIANTACEAE], in von der Decken, Reisen Ost Afr. 3, 3 Bot.: 16 (1879) Pteris consobrina Kunze [family ], in Linnaea 10: 526 (1836). Type: South Africa, Witteberg, Drège 8827 (B, lecto. chosen by N.C. Anthony) Pellaea consobrina (Kunze) Hook. [family ADIANTACEAE], Sp. fil. 2: 145, t. 117, fig. a (1858)
Information
Rhizome shortly creeping, with linear entire scales 5–10 mm long, some pale brown, others with black central stripe and pale margins. Fronds 3–10, tufted, (20–)70–120 cm tall; stipe chestnut or purple-brown, shiny, 12–45(–70) cm long, glabrous but densely scaly at base; lamina triangular or pentagonal, (10–)30–58 cm long, (9–)14–40 cm wide, glabrous, 3–4-pinnate (mostly 3-pinnate but pinnae pinnatifid but some divisions often free, hence partly 4-pinnate (3–5-pinnate according to N.C. Anthony); primary pinnae about 17 cm long, 12 cm wide, stalked; secondary pinnae about 7 cm long, 4 cm wide; tertiary pinnae about 2 cm long, 1 cm wide; ultimate pinnules of 4-pinnate lamina oblong, 5–12 mm long, 2–3 mm wide; sterile margins strongly crenate-toothed; veins easily visible, free. Sori and indusium continuous. Fig. 5 (p. 22).
Range
DISTR. U 1, 2; K 3–7; T 2–4, 6, 7
Altitude range
1300–2850 m
Distribution
KENYA Elgeyo District Cherangani Hills, Kaibwibich, Nov. 1966, Tweedie 3378!;KENYA Londiani District Tinderet Forest Reserve, 19 June 1949, Maas Geesteranus 5043!;KENYA Teita District Mbololo Hill, Mtaru ridge, 5 July 1969, Faden et al. 69/837!TANZANIA Kilimanjaro, Rongai, Kitanti R., 18 Sept. 1993, Grimshaw 93703!TANZANIA Lushoto District roadside near Korongo Viewpoint, 27 Nov. 1981, Mtui 107!TANZANIA Iringa District Hill and Mufindi forest streams, Jan. 1958, Watermeyer 14!UGANDA Karamoja District Mt Debasien, Zebiel, 9 Jan. 1937, A.S. Thomas 2230! & Mt Debasien, Jan. 1936, Eggeling 2731!;UGANDA Kigezi District Kirwa, Dec. 1938, Chandler & Hancock 2545!
Distribution (external)
; Cameroon Ethiopia Sudan Zimbabwe Malawi Mozambique South Africa Swaziland Lesotho Madagascar Comoro Is Yemen
PELLAEA quadripinnata (Forssk.) Prantl [family ADIANTACEAE]
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