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Mohria lepigera
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Photo: Petra Ballings
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Photo: Petra Ballings
Castle Beacon, Vumba
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| Synonyms: |
Anemia lepigera (Baker) Christenh. Notholeana lepigera Baker |
| Common names: | |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Rhizome shortly creeping; scales pale brown, entire, up to 2 mm, ovate-lanceolate. Fronds closely spaced. Stipe 0.5-13 cm, pale brown, with whitish scales. Lamina 13-48 cm × 2-5.5 cm, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic in outline, 2- to 3- pinnatifid, with some much-reduced pinnae basally. Lower surface of the pinnae covered with white, lanceolate, overlapping scales; these are also present on the stipe and rhachis. Upper surface slightly hairy, occasionally with yellow glands. Ultimate segments incised into toothed lobes. Sporangia solitary, submarginal, partly covered by reflexed lobe margin, often obscured by scales. |
| Notes: | Easily distinguished from other species by the creamy-white scales on the lower surface of the lamina. |
| Derivation of specific name: | lepigera: scale-bearing, referring to the undersurface of the fronds that are densely covered in scales |
| Habitat: | Growing on quarzitic soils around the base of boulders or on vegetation islands on granite sheetrock. Terrestrial or lithophytic. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1130 - 2290 m |
| Worldwide distribution: | Burundi, DRC, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, also Madagascar |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,C,E,S |
| Growth form(s): | Lithophyte, terrestrial. |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Thursday 22 September 2011 |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. (1990). Southern African Ferns and Fern Allies. Frandsen, Sandton. Pages 62 - 63. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E. & Burrows, S.M. (1993). An annotated check-list of the pteridophytes of Malawi Kirkia 14(1) Page 83. Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 43. Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 39. Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 25. 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. Jacobsen, W.B.G. (1983). The Ferns and Fern Allies of Southern Africa. Butterworths, Durban and Pretoria. Pages 178 - 179. (Includes a picture). Kornas, J. (1979). Distribution and ecology of the Pteridophytes in Zambia Polska Akademia Nauk Wydzial II Nauk Biologicznych Page 44. 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. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 12. Roux, J.P. (2001). Conspectus of Southern African Pteridophyta. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report 13 Page 54. Roux, J.P. (2009). Synopsis of the Lycopodiophyta and Pteridophyta of Africa, Madagascar and neighbouring islands Page 52. Schelpe, E.A.C.L.E. (1970). Pteridophyta Flora Zambesiaca Pages 56 - 57. (Includes a picture). Schelpe, E.A.C.L.E. & Diniz, M.A. (1979). Pteridophyta Flora de Mocambique Junta de Investigacoes Cientificas do Ultramar; Centro de Botanica Pages 50 - 51. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 78. |
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