| Asplenium
blastophorum Hieron. |
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| This fern has a creeping rhizome with tuffed,
proliferous fronds. The lamina (200-480 x 90-200mm) is pinnate distally,
3-pinnatifid on the basal pair of pinnae and ovate to triangular in outline.
The pinnae are lanceolate in outline with an unequal cuneate base. The
pinnae are incised towards the base into rhombic lobes with serrated outer
margins. Linear sori are situated near the veins, indusiate. |
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Ecology: On leaf litter in deep shaded floor of
semi deciduous forest, not above 1450m |
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Derivation of the specific name: blastophorum: bearing
shoots, this fern has plantlets on the fronds |
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Distribution in southern Africa: Malawi, Mozambique, South
Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
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Copyright: Petra Ballings, 2006
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