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Cyathea capensis L.f. Sm. [family CYATHEACEAE]

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 70, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Cyathea capensis L.f. Sm. [family CYATHEACEAE], in Mem. Acad. Turin, 5: 417 (1793).—Sim, Ferns S. Afr. ed. 2: 85, t. 7 (1915). TAB. 21 fig. D. Type from S. Africa. Polypodium capense L.f. [family CYATHEACEAE], Suppl. Pl.: 445 (1781). Type as above. Trichomanes incisum Thunb. [family CYATHEACEAE], Prodr. Pl. Cap.: 173 (1800). Type from S. Africa. Aspidium capense L.f. Sw. [family CYATHEACEAE], in Schrad., Journ. Bot. 1800, 2: 42 (1801). Type as for Cyathea capensis. Cyathea riparia Willd. [family CYATHEACEAE], in L., Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 5: 493 (1810). Type from S. Africa. Hemitelia capensis L.f. Kaulf. [family CYATHEACEAE], Enum. Fil.: 253 (1824). Type as for Cyathea capensis. Trichomanes cormophyllum Kaulf. [family CYATHEACEAE], tom. cit.: 266 (1824). Type from S. Africa. Hemitelia riparia Willd. Desv. [family CYATHEACEAE], in Mém. Soc. Linn. Par. 6, 2: 322 (1827). Type as for Cyathea riparia. Alsophila capensis L.f. J. Sm. [family CYATHEACEAE], in Hook., Lond. Journ. Bot. 1: 666 (1842). Type as for Cyathea capensis. Amphicosmia riparia Willd. Gardn. [family CYATHEACEAE], in Hook., Lond. Journ. Bot. 1: 441, t. 12 (1842). Type as for Cyathea riparia. Polystichum capense L.f. J. Sm. [family CYATHEACEAE], in Curt. Bot. Mag. 72 Comp.: 35 (1846). Type as for Cyathea capensis. Cormophyllum capense L.f. Newm. [family CYATHEACEAE], in Phytol. 5: 238 (1854). Type as above. Amphicosmia capensis L.f. Klotzsch [family CYATHEACEAE], in Allg. Gartenzeit. 1856: 107 (1856). Type as above.
Information
Caudex c. 10 cm. in diam. and up to 4.5 m. high, erect, slender. Frond arching, herbaceous. Stipe pale-brown ventrally, dark purplish-brown dorsally, with a pair of depauperate pinnae (aphlebia) at the base and sparsely clothed when young with narrowly lanceolate castaneous scales c. 1 cm. long with paler lacerate margins. Lamina up to 2 x 0.8 m., deeply 3-pinnatifid, elliptic in outline; pinnae up to 46 x 16 cm., oblong, attenuate, pinnate into very narrowly oblong attenuate deeply pinnatifid pinnules; pinnule segments dentate, narrowly oblong, slightly falcate, acute; ventral surface glabrous; dorsal surface with pale bullate scales along the costules; rhachis pale- to dark-brown, smooth, glabrous. Sori 1–2 at the base of each pinnule segment, c. 1 mm. in diam., with paraphyses; indusium asymmetric.
Habitat
Shaded moist forested ravines
Altitude range
1370–1800 m. 1800 1370
Distribution
Mozambique MS Chimanimani Mts., Martin Falls, 8.ii.1958, Mitchell 328 (SRGH).Malawi S Mlanje Mt., Luchenya Plateau, 2.vii.1946, Brass 16600 (K).Zimbabwe E Inyanga Distr., Pungwe Gorge, 23.vii.1957, Chase 6644 (BM; BOL; K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa Tanzania
Cyathea capensis L.f. Sm. [family CYATHEACEAE]
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