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Polyphlebium borbonicum
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Tessa's pool, Haroni river, Chimanimani
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Nyamkombe River, Aberfoyle, Honde Valley
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Nyamkombe River, Aberfoyle, Honde Valley
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| Synonyms: |
Crepidomanes borbonicum (Bosch) J.P.Roux Trichomanes borbonicum Bosch Trichomanes goetzei Hieron. Vandenboschia borbonica (Bosch) G. Kunkel |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Rhizome creeping, filiform; covered with long brown unbranched hairs, hairs up to 1 mm long. Fronds spaced apart. Stipe 6-30 mm long, narrowly winged in distal half to three quarters, glabrous. Rhachis winged. Lamina 25-65 × 15-50 mm, ovate to narrowly dentate to lanceolate in outline, base truncate to broadly cuneate, 2- or 3-pinnatifid; pinnae spreading at 45 to 90° from the rhachis; ultimate lobes linear, entire, rounded, false veins or drying fold absent. Sori narrowly obconical, about twice as long as wide, borne in the upper half of the frond, narrowly winged by the lamina for its whole length, soral lips flared. |
| Notes: | A distinct form possessing much longer, branched root hairs, a semiflabbellate lamina and a false intramarginal vein occurs in Swaziland and Zimbabwe. These plants occupy a slightly drier forest type than is typical for P. borbonicum.
P. borbonicum can be seperated from C. melanotrichum and C. inopinatum by having brown rhizome hairs, a stipe that is winged in the upper half, stipe hairs and a drying fold that are absent and a sorus that is twice as long as wide. |
| Derivation of specific name: | borbonicum: of Bourbon; this fern was first described from Bourbon, the original name for Réunion. |
| Habitat: | Lithophytic or epiphytic in moist deeply shaded montane forest. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 380 - 2030 m |
| Worldwide distribution: | Southern Africa, central and tropical Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarenes. |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | E |
| Growth form(s): | Epiphyte, lithophyte. |
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| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Sunday 15 April 2012 |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. (1990). Southern African Ferns and Fern Allies. Frandsen, Sandton. Page 93. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E. & Burrows, S.M. (1993). An annotated check-list of the pteridophytes of Malawi Kirkia 14(1) Page 84. Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 56. As Trichomanes borbonicum Crouch, N.R., Klopper, R.R., Burrows, J.E. & Burrows, S.M. (2011). Ferns of Southern Africa, A comprehensive guide Struik Nature Pages 150 - 151. (Includes a picture). Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 11. As Crepidomanes borbonicum Jacobsen, W.B.G. (1983). The Ferns and Fern Allies of Southern Africa. Butterworths, Durban and Pretoria. Pages 189 - 190. (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 Page 45. Roux, J.P. (2009). Synopsis of the Lycopodiophyta and Pteridophyta of Africa, Madagascar and neighbouring islands Pages 47 - 48. Schelpe, E.A.C.L.E. (1970). Pteridophyta Flora Zambesiaca Page 76. (Includes a picture). Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 78. |
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