133.100 Actiniopteris Link

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Jacobsen, W.B.G. (1983) The Ferns and Fern Allies of Southern Africa. Butterworths, Durban and Pretoria.

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Schelpe, E.A.C.L.E. (1970) Pteridophyta Flora Zambesiaca

Description of the genus

Plants small, terrestrial or lithophytic. Rhizome creeping, rhizome scales linear, attenuate concolorous or variegated. Fronds tufted, flabellate, dichotomously divided into linear segments, sometimes dimorphic with fertile and sterile fronds, these strongly or weakly differentiated; fertile fronds usually larger than the sterile. Sori in a submarginal line, covered by a modified marginal indusium. Indusium continuous, entire.

Derivation of name: aktinos: ray, pteris: fern; referring to the radial or fan-shaped lamina.

Worldwide: 5 species, predominantly African, but 2 extended to India and Sri Lanka

Rwanda: 2 taxa.

Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

Species		Content
radiata (J. Konig ex Sw.) Link		Description, Image
semiflabellata Pic.Serm.		Description

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