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| Synonyms: |
Asplenium falsum Retz. Asplenium furcatum Thunb. Asplenium praemorsum sensu Sim Asplenium praemorsum Sw. var. angustitripinnatum Bonap. Asplenium vinsoii Cordem. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
General description see A. aethiopicum . For subsp. aethiopicum fronds up to 60 cm long, 2-pinnate to 3-pinnatifid, pinnae trullate with usually more than 3 free pinnules, subcoriaveous; mean spore size 38-44µm |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | aethiopicum: Africa south of Libya and Egypt |
| Habitat: | Moist or seasonally moist forest, forest remnants and rocky outcrops. Terrestrial, epiphytic or lithophytic. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 50 - 1800 m |
| Worldwide distribution: | Bioko, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic DRC, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tomé, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | E |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 25. as Asplenium aethiopicum Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 7. As Asplenium aethiopicum Crouch, N.R., Klopper, R.R., Burrows, J.E. & Burrows, S.M. (2011). Ferns of Southern Africa, A comprehensive guide Struik Nature Pages 646 - 649. (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 9. Fisher E. & Lobin W. (2024). Checklist of Lycopodiopsida (clubmosses and quillworts) and Polypodiopsida (ferns) of Rwanda. Willdenowia 53(3) Page 156. 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 5. Roux, J.P. (2001). Conspectus of Southern African Pteridophyta. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report 13 Page 161. Roux, J.P. (2009). Synopsis of the Lycopodiophyta and Pteridophyta of Africa, Madagascar and neighbouring islands Pages 76 - 77. |
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