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PTERIS bavazzanoi Pic. Serm. [family ]
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
PTERIS bavazzanoi Pic. Serm. [family ], in Webbia 27: 422, fig. 11 (1972); Schippers in Fern Gaz. 14: 185 (1993). Type: Tanzania, Arusha District, Mt Meru, slopes of crater, Bavazzano 54 (FT, holo., herb. Pic.-Serm. 25185, 25186, iso.)
PTERIS kilimensis Bonap. [family ], Not. Ptérid. 7: 297 (1918), nom. nud. Based on Alluaud 43, 431, 432 from Kilimanjaro (P)
Information
Rhizome creeping with pale brown or chestnut lanceolate scales with long hair tip. Fronds spaced or tufted, 0.6–1.2 m tall. Stipe straw-coloured, sometimes darker at base and with few scales near rhizome, 25–95 cm long. Lamina ovate in outline, 14–48 cm long, 10–38 cm wide, 2–4-pinnatipartite at base, 1–2-pinnate above; pinnae lanceolate in outline, 6–13 cm long, 2–3.5 cm wide; segments of pinnae or pinnules 3–14-jugate, ± oblong to linear-lanceolate, 0.5–2.5 cm long, 3–5 mm wide, the terminal segment linear-lanceolate, 2.5–3.5 cm long, 3 mm wide, all spinulose-mucronate at apex; sterile margins spinulose-serrate; costa and costules spinulose above, the former deeply channelled; veins free. Sori reaching nearly the apex of the segments, the sterile tips spinulose-serrate and mucronate.
Range
DISTR. T 2 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
2100–3200 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Arusha District E slope of Mt Meru, NE end of caldera wall, 27 Apr. 1969, Greenway & FitzGerald 13618! & Mt Meru, Jekukumia, 1 Apr. 1971, Richards & Arasululu 26896!;TANZANIA Moshi District Kilimanjaro, near Bismarck Hill, 27 Feb. 1934, Greenway 3820!
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
PTERIS bavazzanoi Pic. Serm. [family ], in Webbia 27: 422, fig. 11 (1972); Schippers in Fern Gaz. 14: 185 (1993). Type: Tanzania, Arusha District, Mt Meru, slopes of crater, Bavazzano 54 (FT, holo., herb. Pic.-Serm. 25185, 25186, iso.)
PTERIS kilimensis Bonap. [family ], Not. Ptérid. 7: 297 (1918), nom. nud. Based on Alluaud 43, 431, 432 from Kilimanjaro (P)
Information
Rhizome creeping with pale brown or chestnut lanceolate scales with long hair tip. Fronds spaced or tufted, 0.6–1.2 m tall. Stipe straw-coloured, sometimes darker at base and with few scales near rhizome, 25–95 cm long. Lamina ovate in outline, 14–48 cm long, 10–38 cm wide, 2–4-pinnatipartite at base, 1–2-pinnate above; pinnae lanceolate in outline, 6–13 cm long, 2–3.5 cm wide; segments of pinnae or pinnules 3–14-jugate, ± oblong to linear-lanceolate, 0.5–2.5 cm long, 3–5 mm wide, the terminal segment linear-lanceolate, 2.5–3.5 cm long, 3 mm wide, all spinulose-mucronate at apex; sterile margins spinulose-serrate; costa and costules spinulose above, the former deeply channelled; veins free. Sori reaching nearly the apex of the segments, the sterile tips spinulose-serrate and mucronate.
Range
DISTR. T 2 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
2100–3200 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Arusha District E slope of Mt Meru, NE end of caldera wall, 27 Apr. 1969, Greenway & FitzGerald 13618! & Mt Meru, Jekukumia, 1 Apr. 1971, Richards & Arasululu 26896!;TANZANIA Moshi District Kilimanjaro, near Bismarck Hill, 27 Feb. 1934, Greenway 3820!
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
PTERIS bavazzanoi Pic. Serm. [family ], in Webbia 27: 422, fig. 11 (1972); Schippers in Fern Gaz. 14: 185 (1993). Type: Tanzania, Arusha District, Mt Meru, slopes of crater, Bavazzano 54 (FT, holo., herb. Pic.-Serm. 25185, 25186, iso.)
PTERIS kilimensis Bonap. [family ], Not. Ptérid. 7: 297 (1918), nom. nud. Based on Alluaud 43, 431, 432 from Kilimanjaro (P)
Information
Rhizome creeping with pale brown or chestnut lanceolate scales with long hair tip. Fronds spaced or tufted, 0.6–1.2 m tall. Stipe straw-coloured, sometimes darker at base and with few scales near rhizome, 25–95 cm long. Lamina ovate in outline, 14–48 cm long, 10–38 cm wide, 2–4-pinnatipartite at base, 1–2-pinnate above; pinnae lanceolate in outline, 6–13 cm long, 2–3.5 cm wide; segments of pinnae or pinnules 3–14-jugate, ± oblong to linear-lanceolate, 0.5–2.5 cm long, 3–5 mm wide, the terminal segment linear-lanceolate, 2.5–3.5 cm long, 3 mm wide, all spinulose-mucronate at apex; sterile margins spinulose-serrate; costa and costules spinulose above, the former deeply channelled; veins free. Sori reaching nearly the apex of the segments, the sterile tips spinulose-serrate and mucronate.
Range
DISTR. T 2 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
2100–3200 m
Distribution
TANZANIA Arusha District E slope of Mt Meru, NE end of caldera wall, 27 Apr. 1969, Greenway & FitzGerald 13618! & Mt Meru, Jekukumia, 1 Apr. 1971, Richards & Arasululu 26896!;TANZANIA Moshi District Kilimanjaro, near Bismarck Hill, 27 Feb. 1934, Greenway 3820!
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