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Anemia angolensis Alston [family SCHIZAEACEAE]

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 0, Part 0, page 52, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Anemia angolensis Alston [family SCHIZAEACEAE], in Contr. Conhec. Fl. Moçamb. 2: 9, t. 2 fig. 3a (1954). Type from Angola. Anemia schimperana var. angustiloba Bonap. [family SCHIZAEACEAE], Not. Ptérid. 1: 133 (1915). Type from Tanzania. . Hemianemia schimperana var. angustiloba Bonap. Reed [family SCHIZAEACEAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 21: 162 (1948). Type as above. Anemia simii var. angustiloba Bonap. P.-Sermolli [family SCHIZAEACEAE], in Webbia, 9: 654 (1954). Type as for Anemia schimperana var. angustiloba.
Information
Rhizome up to 6 mm. in diam., horizontal, densely clothed with light-brown to reddish-brown multicellular hairs up to 5 mm. long. Stipe up to 13 cm. long (longer in Angolan type), stramineous, thinly villous with brown multicellular hairs up to 2.5 mm. long. Sterile lamina up to 11 x 7.5 cm., ovate-deltate to ovate-oblong, 2-pinnatifid to 3-pinnatifid; rhachis thinly villous. Sterile pinnae shortly petiolulate to sessile, sparsely villous above and below, segments rounded, adnate, decurrent, minutely shallowly crenate. Fertile pinnae erect, shorter to longer than the sterile portion, with petiolules up to 5.5 cm. and the fertile pinnae proper up to 10 cm., 3-pinnatifid, the segments up to 1 mm. broad, villous; rhachis thinly villous. Sporangia in 2 rows.
Habitat
Undergrowth of dry woodland
Altitude range
600–1525 m. 1525 600
Distribution
Zambia S Mumbwa, 1912, Macaulay 1047 (K).Zambia C 9.6 km. E. of Lusaka, 16.i.1956, King 271 (K).Zambia W Mwinilunga Distr., Katunda Ridge, 22.i.1938, Milne-Redhead 4267 (BM; K).Malawi C Kongwe Mt., near Dowa, 18.ii.1959, Robson 1651 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe N E. Urungwe, 1.6 km. N. of Mauora R., 28.ii.1958, Phipps 956 (BM; BOL; LISC; SRGH).Zambia N Abercorn Distr., Kalambo Falls, 30.iii.1952, Richards 1244 (K).
Distribution (external)
Angola Tanzania Congo

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 0, Part 0, page 52, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Anemia angolensis Alston [family SCHIZAEACEAE], in Contr. Conhec. Fl. Moçamb. 2: 9, t. 2 fig. 3a (1954). Type from Angola. Anemia schimperana var. angustiloba Bonap. [family SCHIZAEACEAE], Not. Ptérid. 1: 133 (1915). Type from Tanzania. . Hemianemia schimperana var. angustiloba Bonap. Reed [family SCHIZAEACEAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 21: 162 (1948). Type as above. Anemia simii var. angustiloba Bonap. P.-Sermolli [family SCHIZAEACEAE], in Webbia, 9: 654 (1954). Type as for Anemia schimperana var. angustiloba.
Information
Rhizome up to 6 mm. in diam., horizontal, densely clothed with light-brown to reddish-brown multicellular hairs up to 5 mm. long. Stipe up to 13 cm. long (longer in Angolan type), stramineous, thinly villous with brown multicellular hairs up to 2.5 mm. long. Sterile lamina up to 11 x 7.5 cm., ovate-deltate to ovate-oblong, 2-pinnatifid to 3-pinnatifid; rhachis thinly villous. Sterile pinnae shortly petiolulate to sessile, sparsely villous above and below, segments rounded, adnate, decurrent, minutely shallowly crenate. Fertile pinnae erect, shorter to longer than the sterile portion, with petiolules up to 5.5 cm. and the fertile pinnae proper up to 10 cm., 3-pinnatifid, the segments up to 1 mm. broad, villous; rhachis thinly villous. Sporangia in 2 rows.
Habitat
Undergrowth of dry woodland
Altitude range
600–1525 m. 1525 600
Distribution
Zambia S Mumbwa, 1912, Macaulay 1047 (K).Zambia C 9.6 km. E. of Lusaka, 16.i.1956, King 271 (K).Zambia W Mwinilunga Distr., Katunda Ridge, 22.i.1938, Milne-Redhead 4267 (BM; K).Malawi C Kongwe Mt., near Dowa, 18.ii.1959, Robson 1651 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe N E. Urungwe, 1.6 km. N. of Mauora R., 28.ii.1958, Phipps 956 (BM; BOL; LISC; SRGH).Zambia N Abercorn Distr., Kalambo Falls, 30.iii.1952, Richards 1244 (K).
Distribution (external)
Angola Tanzania Congo

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 0, Part 0, page 52, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Anemia angolensis Alston [family SCHIZAEACEAE], in Contr. Conhec. Fl. Moçamb. 2: 9, t. 2 fig. 3a (1954). Type from Angola. Anemia schimperana var. angustiloba Bonap. [family SCHIZAEACEAE], Not. Ptérid. 1: 133 (1915). Type from Tanzania. . Hemianemia schimperana var. angustiloba Bonap. Reed [family SCHIZAEACEAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 21: 162 (1948). Type as above. Anemia simii var. angustiloba Bonap. P.-Sermolli [family SCHIZAEACEAE], in Webbia, 9: 654 (1954). Type as for Anemia schimperana var. angustiloba.
Information
Rhizome up to 6 mm. in diam., horizontal, densely clothed with light-brown to reddish-brown multicellular hairs up to 5 mm. long. Stipe up to 13 cm. long (longer in Angolan type), stramineous, thinly villous with brown multicellular hairs up to 2.5 mm. long. Sterile lamina up to 11 x 7.5 cm., ovate-deltate to ovate-oblong, 2-pinnatifid to 3-pinnatifid; rhachis thinly villous. Sterile pinnae shortly petiolulate to sessile, sparsely villous above and below, segments rounded, adnate, decurrent, minutely shallowly crenate. Fertile pinnae erect, shorter to longer than the sterile portion, with petiolules up to 5.5 cm. and the fertile pinnae proper up to 10 cm., 3-pinnatifid, the segments up to 1 mm. broad, villous; rhachis thinly villous. Sporangia in 2 rows.
Habitat
Undergrowth of dry woodland
Altitude range
600–1525 m. 1525 600
Distribution
Zambia S Mumbwa, 1912, Macaulay 1047 (K).Zambia C 9.6 km. E. of Lusaka, 16.i.1956, King 271 (K).Zambia W Mwinilunga Distr., Katunda Ridge, 22.i.1938, Milne-Redhead 4267 (BM; K).Malawi C Kongwe Mt., near Dowa, 18.ii.1959, Robson 1651 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe N E. Urungwe, 1.6 km. N. of Mauora R., 28.ii.1958, Phipps 956 (BM; BOL; LISC; SRGH).Zambia N Abercorn Distr., Kalambo Falls, 30.iii.1952, Richards 1244 (K).
Distribution (external)
Angola Tanzania Congo
Anemia angolensis Alston [family SCHIZAEACEAE]
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