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| Synonyms: |
Calamaria schweinfurthii A. Braun ex Baker Isoetes kersii Wanntorp Isoetes rhodesiana Alston |
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| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Pseudo-corms 3-lobed; bud scales dark brown to blackish, triangular-cuspidate, ± 6 × 4 mm. Leaves 5-40, narrow, stiff, 150-300 mm × c.1 mm (at apex) - c.10 mm (around sporangium), apex tapering to a point. Ligule narrowly triangular, sides convex, abruptly pointed, 2-6 mm long, pale, covered by a membranous serrate lip in the lower half. Velum absent. Sporangia 4-12 × 5-9 mm, oblong-obovate to circular. Megaspores 0.4-0.5 mm in diameter, ash-grey to whitish, upper surface almost smooth or with a few tubercles, lower tuberculate with conical warts. |
| Notes: | I. alstonii is distinguished from I. schweinfurthii by its 2-lobed pseudo-corm. I. schweinfurhii is separated from I. aequinoctialis by lacking a velum. |
| Derivation of specific name: | schweinfurthii: named after Dr Georg August Schweinfurth (1836-1925), German botanical collector and taxonomist. |
| Habitat: | Shallow seasonally inundated pans in dry deciduous woodland or sometimes in sandy soils overlying sheetrock along river margins. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 880 - 1100 m |
| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, central African Republic, Côte d' Ivoire, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe. |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,E,S |
| Growth form(s): | Terrestrial. |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | Data deficient |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. (1990). Southern African Ferns and Fern Allies. Frandsen, Sandton. Page 36. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E. & Burrows, S.M. (1993). An annotated check-list of the pteridophytes of Malawi Kirkia 14(1) Page 81. Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 34. (Includes a picture). Crouch, N.R., Klopper, R.R., Burrows, J.E. & Burrows, S.M. (2011). Ferns of Southern Africa, A comprehensive guide Struik Nature Pages 70 - 71. (Includes a picture). Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Zimbabwe Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 180. Jacobsen, W.B.G. (1983). The Ferns and Fern Allies of Southern Africa. Butterworths, Durban and Pretoria. Pages 153 - 154. (Includes a picture). Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 7. Roux, J.P. (2001). Conspectus of Southern African Pteridophyta. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report 13 Pages 29 - 30. Roux, J.P. (2009). Synopsis of the Lycopodiophyta and Pteridophyta of Africa, Madagascar and neighbouring islands Page 10. Schelpe, E.A.C.L.E. (1970). Pteridophyta Flora Zambesiaca Page 30. As Isoetes rhodesiana Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 15. |
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