| Asplenium
formosum Willd. |
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| This rare fern has a thin, erect rhizome
with tuffed, not proliferous fronds. The stipe & rachis are blackish-brown
to black; the rachis has a narrow wing. The lamina (100-310 x
13-35mm) is pinnnate to 2-pinnatifid and narrowly lanceolate to linear
inoutline. It carries up to 50 pairs of glabrous pinnae, lower pinnae
gradually reducing in size. The pinnae margins are entire on the basiscopic
side and incised on the acroscopic side. One or two linear to oval sori are
situated on the basal margins of the pinnae, indusium present. |
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Ecology: Deep shade in forest, boulders in
riverine forest, 600-1400m |
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Derivation of the specific name: formosum: delicate |
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Distribution in southern Africa: Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia,
Zimbabwe |
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Copyright: Petra Ballings, 2006
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