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Asplenium sandersonii Hook. [family ASPLENIACEAE]
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 167, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Asplenium sandersonii Hook. [family ASPLENIACEAE], Sp. Fil. 3: 147, t. 179 (1860).–Sim, Ferns S. Afr. ed. 2: 139, t. 43 fig. 1 (1915).—Tardieu in Mém. Inst. Fr. Afr. Noire, 28: 175, t. 33 fig. 4–5 (1953). TAB. 53 fig. B. Type from S. Africa.
Asplenium vagans Bak. [family ASPLENIACEAE], Syn. Fil.: 195 (1867). Syntypes from S. Tomé and Madagascar.
Asplenium debile Mett. ex Kuhn [family ASPLENIACEAE], Fil. Afr.: 101 (1868) non Fée (1865). Type from Comoro Is.
Asplenium melleri Mett. ex Kuhn [family ASPLENIACEAE], tom. cit.: 106 (1868). Type from Madagascar.
Asplenium punctatum Mett. ex Kuhn [family ASPLENIACEAE], tom. cit.: 114 (1868). Type from S. Tomé.
Asplenium hanningtonii Bak. [family ASPLENIACEAE], in Journ. of Bot. 21: 245 (1883). Type from Tanzania.
Asplenium comorense C. Chr. [family ASPLENIACEAE], Ind. Fil.: 105 (1906). Type from Comoro Is.
Information
Rhizome c. 3 mm. in diam., erect to suberect, with tufted fronds and with brown lanceolate-attenuate entire clathrate rhizome-scales up to 3.5 mm. long. Fronds arching, carnose, coriaceous, proliferating with a bud at the end of a naked extension of the rhachis. Stipe stramineous, up to 7 cm., sulcate when dry, glabrous except for occasional subulate clathrate pseudoserrate scales up to 1.5 mm. long. Lamina up to 16.5 x 2.5 cm., simply pinnate, pinnae petiolate, rhombic-dimidiate to cuneate tending to lunate; larger pinnae up to 1.3 x 0.7 cm., shallowly lobed into up to 9 entire obtuse lobes on the acroscopic margins, subglabrous with occasional minute brown stellate scales c. 0.5 mm. in diam. on the dorsal surface. Rhachis stramineous, with narrow green wings, set with sparse subulate brown scales and minute paler substellate scales. Sori 2 mm. long, oblong, up to 5 per pinna; indusium oblong, longly ciliate, semi-transparent.
Habitat
Common gregarious epiphyte in moist forest
Altitude range
970–1890 m.
1890
970
Distribution
Mozambique MS Chimanimani Mts., 8.ii.1958, Mitchell 324 (BM; BOL; SRGH).Mozambique Z Namúli Mt., 29.vii.1962, Schelpe & Leach 7089 (BOL).Malawi S Gochi, Kirk Range, 30.i.1959, Robson 1372 (K; SRGH).Mozambique N Ribáuè, Serra de Ribáuè, 16.vi.1935, Torre 853 (COI; LISC).Malawi C Kota Kota Distr., Mchinji Hills, 31.vii.1946, Brass 17065 (BM; K; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Vumba Mts., 28.xii.1946, Fisher 1098 (BM; BOL; K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa
tropical Africa
Madagascar
Comoro Is
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 167, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Asplenium sandersonii Hook. [family ASPLENIACEAE], Sp. Fil. 3: 147, t. 179 (1860).–Sim, Ferns S. Afr. ed. 2: 139, t. 43 fig. 1 (1915).—Tardieu in Mém. Inst. Fr. Afr. Noire, 28: 175, t. 33 fig. 4–5 (1953). TAB. 53 fig. B. Type from S. Africa.
Asplenium vagans Bak. [family ASPLENIACEAE], Syn. Fil.: 195 (1867). Syntypes from S. Tomé and Madagascar.
Asplenium debile Mett. ex Kuhn [family ASPLENIACEAE], Fil. Afr.: 101 (1868) non Fée (1865). Type from Comoro Is.
Asplenium melleri Mett. ex Kuhn [family ASPLENIACEAE], tom. cit.: 106 (1868). Type from Madagascar.
Asplenium punctatum Mett. ex Kuhn [family ASPLENIACEAE], tom. cit.: 114 (1868). Type from S. Tomé.
Asplenium hanningtonii Bak. [family ASPLENIACEAE], in Journ. of Bot. 21: 245 (1883). Type from Tanzania.
Asplenium comorense C. Chr. [family ASPLENIACEAE], Ind. Fil.: 105 (1906). Type from Comoro Is.
Information
Rhizome c. 3 mm. in diam., erect to suberect, with tufted fronds and with brown lanceolate-attenuate entire clathrate rhizome-scales up to 3.5 mm. long. Fronds arching, carnose, coriaceous, proliferating with a bud at the end of a naked extension of the rhachis. Stipe stramineous, up to 7 cm., sulcate when dry, glabrous except for occasional subulate clathrate pseudoserrate scales up to 1.5 mm. long. Lamina up to 16.5 x 2.5 cm., simply pinnate, pinnae petiolate, rhombic-dimidiate to cuneate tending to lunate; larger pinnae up to 1.3 x 0.7 cm., shallowly lobed into up to 9 entire obtuse lobes on the acroscopic margins, subglabrous with occasional minute brown stellate scales c. 0.5 mm. in diam. on the dorsal surface. Rhachis stramineous, with narrow green wings, set with sparse subulate brown scales and minute paler substellate scales. Sori 2 mm. long, oblong, up to 5 per pinna; indusium oblong, longly ciliate, semi-transparent.
Habitat
Common gregarious epiphyte in moist forest
Altitude range
970–1890 m.
1890
970
Distribution
Mozambique MS Chimanimani Mts., 8.ii.1958, Mitchell 324 (BM; BOL; SRGH).Mozambique Z Namúli Mt., 29.vii.1962, Schelpe & Leach 7089 (BOL).Malawi S Gochi, Kirk Range, 30.i.1959, Robson 1372 (K; SRGH).Mozambique N Ribáuè, Serra de Ribáuè, 16.vi.1935, Torre 853 (COI; LISC).Malawi C Kota Kota Distr., Mchinji Hills, 31.vii.1946, Brass 17065 (BM; K; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Vumba Mts., 28.xii.1946, Fisher 1098 (BM; BOL; K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa
tropical Africa
Madagascar
Comoro Is
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 167, (1970) Author: E. A. C. L. E. Schelpe
Names
Asplenium sandersonii Hook. [family ASPLENIACEAE], Sp. Fil. 3: 147, t. 179 (1860).–Sim, Ferns S. Afr. ed. 2: 139, t. 43 fig. 1 (1915).—Tardieu in Mém. Inst. Fr. Afr. Noire, 28: 175, t. 33 fig. 4–5 (1953). TAB. 53 fig. B. Type from S. Africa.
Asplenium vagans Bak. [family ASPLENIACEAE], Syn. Fil.: 195 (1867). Syntypes from S. Tomé and Madagascar.
Asplenium debile Mett. ex Kuhn [family ASPLENIACEAE], Fil. Afr.: 101 (1868) non Fée (1865). Type from Comoro Is.
Asplenium melleri Mett. ex Kuhn [family ASPLENIACEAE], tom. cit.: 106 (1868). Type from Madagascar.
Asplenium punctatum Mett. ex Kuhn [family ASPLENIACEAE], tom. cit.: 114 (1868). Type from S. Tomé.
Asplenium hanningtonii Bak. [family ASPLENIACEAE], in Journ. of Bot. 21: 245 (1883). Type from Tanzania.
Asplenium comorense C. Chr. [family ASPLENIACEAE], Ind. Fil.: 105 (1906). Type from Comoro Is.
Information
Rhizome c. 3 mm. in diam., erect to suberect, with tufted fronds and with brown lanceolate-attenuate entire clathrate rhizome-scales up to 3.5 mm. long. Fronds arching, carnose, coriaceous, proliferating with a bud at the end of a naked extension of the rhachis. Stipe stramineous, up to 7 cm., sulcate when dry, glabrous except for occasional subulate clathrate pseudoserrate scales up to 1.5 mm. long. Lamina up to 16.5 x 2.5 cm., simply pinnate, pinnae petiolate, rhombic-dimidiate to cuneate tending to lunate; larger pinnae up to 1.3 x 0.7 cm., shallowly lobed into up to 9 entire obtuse lobes on the acroscopic margins, subglabrous with occasional minute brown stellate scales c. 0.5 mm. in diam. on the dorsal surface. Rhachis stramineous, with narrow green wings, set with sparse subulate brown scales and minute paler substellate scales. Sori 2 mm. long, oblong, up to 5 per pinna; indusium oblong, longly ciliate, semi-transparent.
Habitat
Common gregarious epiphyte in moist forest
Altitude range
970–1890 m.
1890
970
Distribution
Mozambique MS Chimanimani Mts., 8.ii.1958, Mitchell 324 (BM; BOL; SRGH).Mozambique Z Namúli Mt., 29.vii.1962, Schelpe & Leach 7089 (BOL).Malawi S Gochi, Kirk Range, 30.i.1959, Robson 1372 (K; SRGH).Mozambique N Ribáuè, Serra de Ribáuè, 16.vi.1935, Torre 853 (COI; LISC).Malawi C Kota Kota Distr., Mchinji Hills, 31.vii.1946, Brass 17065 (BM; K; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Vumba Mts., 28.xii.1946, Fisher 1098 (BM; BOL; K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa
tropical Africa
Madagascar
Comoro Is
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