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| Status: | Native |
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Rhizome short- to long-creeping; rhizome scales lanceolate in outline, 7 mm long. Fronds monomorphic, 0.5–1 m tall. Stipe up to 50 cm long, softly hairy. Lamina simply pinnate-pinnatifid, 20–50 cm long with about 20 pairs of pinnae, the basal ones deflexed, not or only slightly reduced; pinnae apex tapering to a point, 5–16 x 1–2 cm, deeply lobed; lobes oblong in outline, rounded truncate, ± entire, 6 x 2.5–4 mm; veins in 8–10 pairs, the lowest pair joined forming an excurrent vein to the sinus-membrane, lower surfaces of lobes typically covered with soft spreading hairs and thick orange or very pale ellipsoid glands usually present on the costules and veins. Indusia hairy. |
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| Habitat: | Forest, seasonally inundated bushland, thicket. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Africa, tropical Asia and Pacific, St. Helena. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Fischer E. & Lobin W. (2024). Checklist of Lycopodiopsida (clubmosses and quillworts) and Polypodiopsida (ferns) of Rwanda. Willdenowia 53(3) Page 166. |
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