Asplenium lobatum Pappe & Raws. |
Syn: Asplenium lobatum Pappe & Raws. var. pseudoabyssinicum |
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| Photos: Petra Ballings, Vumba and Ballings 38, 06-07-2000, Castle Beacon Vumba, private collection |
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A delicate fern with erect rhizome and tuffed fronds, fronds not proliferous. Lamina (150-400 x 40-150mm) glabrous or with few brown scales on te undersurface along costa, 2-pinnate to 4-pinnatifid, elliptic in outline. Sori not marginal more than one per lobe, indusium entire. |
| Ecology: Terrestrial or lithophyte in deeply shaded forest floor in evergreen forest, 1200-2040m |
| Derivation of the specific name: lobatum : this fern has a seperate acroscopic lobe on each pinnule |
| Distribution in southern Africa: Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, South Africa |
Copyright: Petra Ballings, 2006