- Family: Aspleniaceae Newman
- Genus: Thelypteris Schmidel
Thelypteris arbuscula (Willd.) K.Iwats.
- Genus: Thelypteris Schmidel
[FTEA]
Thelypteridaceae, Bernard Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2006
- Type
- Type: Mauritius, Bory de St. Vincent in Herb. Willd. 19763 (B-W, holo., seen by Holttum)
- Vegetative Multiplication Rhizomes
- Rhizome erect to 30 cm or more tall with thick layer of roots and dark brown lanceolate distinctly hairy scales 3–4 mm long
- Morphology Leaves
- Fronds tufted 0.5–1.5 m tall
- Morphology Leaves Stipes
- Stipe 5–10 cm long, densely shortly adpressed hairy
- Morphology Leaves Leaf lamina
- Lamina narrowly oblong, 35–70 cm long, 12–28 cm wide, bipinnatifid, with 5–10 pairs of lower pinnae gradually reduced, all auricled at acroscopic base or not; largest pinnae linear-lanceolate, 6–17 cm long, 7–16 mm wide, acuminate to a rather blunt apex, distinctly auricled at base, usually distinctly crenate-serrate for 1–1.5 mm but sometimes only slightly so, lower surface densely hairy and with spherical glands also some glands on upper surface; lobes shortly obliquely ovate, up to 3 mm long and wide; veins 4–6 pairs, 11/2 pairs anastomosing next to the short sinus-membrane
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Sori
- Sori forming 3–4 lines on each side ± parallel to pinna costa; indusium with short hairs and glands; sporangia with yellow glands
- Figures
- Fig 12, p 39
Native to:
India, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Sri Lanka, Tanzania
- Cyclosorus arbuscula (Willd.) Ching
- Sphaerostephanos arbuscula (Willd.) Holttum
- Sphaerostephanos arbuscula subsp. africana Holttum
- Aspidium arbuscula Willd.
- Aspidium hookeri Wall. ex Hook.
- Dryopteris arbuscula (Willd.) Kuntze
- Nephrodium arbuscula (Willd.) Desv.
- Nephrodium auriculatum Fée
- Nephrodium hookeri T.Moore & Houlston
- Nephrodium puberum J.Sm.
Thelypteris arbuscula (Willd.) K.Iwats. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Drummond, R.B. [1203], Kenya | Sphaerostephanos arbuscula subsp. africana | K000435841 | holotype | |
Wallich, N. [116], Tamil Nadu | Sphaerostephanos arbuscula | K000951538 | Unknown type material | |
Wallich, N. [s.n.], Tamil Nadu | Sphaerostephanos arbuscula | K000951537 |
First published in Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 21: 170 (1965)
Accepted by
- Fraser-Jenkins, C.R. & al. (2017). An Annotated Checklist of Indian Pteridophytes 1: 1-562. Dehra Dun : BSMPS.
Not accepted by
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. [Cited as Sphaerostephanos arbuscula subspec. arbuscula.]
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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