167.600 Loxogramme (Blume) C. Presl

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Description of the genus

Rhizome widely creeping, slender, roots hairy; rhizome scales greyish, narrowly lanceolate-acuminate and hair-pointed. Fronds spaced apart, simple, thickly coracious, lanceolate, apex pointed. Stipe up to 3 cm long or pseudo-stipe in form of a narrow, winged extension of the lamina. Lamina entire, glabrous, with sunken midrib and obscure veins. Sori elongate, linear, set at an angle of c. 15% to the midrib, without paraphyses.

Derivation of name: loxos: oblique, gramma: line; referring to the line of obliquely set sori on each side of the midrib.

Worldwide: c. 25 species, tropical and warm temperate distribution with the largest concentration of species in Asia

Rwanda: 1 taxon.

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

Species		Content
abyssinica (Baker) M.G. Price		Description, Image

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Flora of Burundi: Loxogramme
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Flora of Mozambique: Loxogramme
Flora of Zambia: Loxogramme
Flora of Zimbabwe: Loxogramme

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