- Family: Aspleniaceae Newman
- Genus: Thelypteris Schmidel
Thelypteris confluens (Thunb.) C.V.Morton
- Genus: Thelypteris Schmidel
This species is accepted, and its native range is Tropical & Subtropical Old World.
Descriptions
According to Flora of Tropical East Africa
[FTEA]Thelypteridaceae, Bernard Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2006
- Type
- Type: South Africa, Cape Peninsula, Thunberg s.n. (UPS, holo., seen by Schelpe)
- Rhizomes
- Rhizome widely creeping, up to 56 cm long, 2–3 mm in diameter with dark brown ovate somewhat undulate rhizome scales up to 2 mm long blackening with age
- Stipes
- Stipes stramineous, black at the base, 15–50 cm long
- Leaf lamina
- Lamina lanceolate to broadly lanceolate in outline, 25–55 cm long, 21 cm wide, deeply bipinnatifid, acute at apex, the basal pinnae slightly reduced.
- Leaves
- Pinnae narrowly oblong, 4–11 cm long, 0.6–2 cm wide, deeply lobed, the lobes oblong, 0.3–1.4 cm long, 3–5 mm wide, glabrous, glandular or thinly pilose beneath and with thin cinnamon membranous ovate scales along the costa beneath. Fronds spaced up to 5 cm apart, 0.35–1.05 m tall
- Leaf veins
- Costa grooved above, glabrous; veins in sterile fronds mostly forked, in fertile often simple
- Indusium
- Indusium glabrous or with short marginal hairs
- Figures
- Fig 6, p 23
- Ecology
- Swampy areas, quaking Sphagnum bogs, Typha, Papyrus, Cyperus marshes but sometimes in seasonally drier areas, vleis banks and ditches, Syzygium forest; (0–)900–2400 m (see note)
- Note
- Holst 2567 (Tanzania, Amboni, June 1893) is from a much lower altitude (probably ± sea level) than any other East Africa specimen seen. It is curious it has not been collected again from such a well known area. Only one specimen seen for Nigeria, Bowden 71 (Sardauna Province, Mambila Plateau, valley near Maya–Ndaga, 6 Apr. 1970).
- Distribution
- Flora districts: U2 U4 K3 K4 K5 K6 K7 T1 T2 T3 T4 T7 T8 Range: Nigeria, Congo (Kinshasa), Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, Ethiopia, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa; Madagascar, S India, N Thailand, Laos, N Sumatra, New Guinea, Australia (Queensland and Victoria) and New Zealand
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Distribution
Native to:
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, China South-Central, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, New Guinea, New Zealand North, Queensland, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sumatera, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Victoria, Vietnam, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
Argentina Northeast
Synonyms
- Athyrium cyclolepis C.Chr. & Tardieu
- Lastrea cabrerae (Weath.) Capurro
- Lastrea fairbankii Bedd.
- Lastrea squamulosa C.Presl
- Thelypteris cabrerae (Weath.) Abbiatti
- Thelypteris cyclolepis (C.Chr. & Tardieu) Tagawa
- Thelypteris fairbankii (Bedd.) Y.X.Lin, K.Iwats. & M.G.Gilbert
- Thelypteris squamigera (Schltdl.) Ching
- Aspidium dregei Fée
- Aspidium squamigerum (Schltdl.) Fée
- Aspidium thelypteris var. squamigerum Schltdl.
- Dryopteris cabrerae Weath.
- Nephrodium squamulosum Hook.f.
- Pteris confluens Thunb.
Other Data
Thelypteris confluens (Thunb.) C.V.Morton appears in other Kew resources:
Herbarium Catalogue (3 records)
| Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 2001 | Pollard, B.J. [164], Cameroon | K000108943 | ||
| Colenso, W. [119], New Zealand | K000951422 | |||
| Beddome R.H. [s.n.], Indian Subcontinent | K000951420 |
Bibliography
First published in Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 38: 71 (1967)
Accepted by
- Güner, A. (ed.) (2018). Resimli Türkiye Florasi (Illustrated Flora of Turkey) 2: 1-1054. ANG Vakfi/Nezahat Gökyigit Botanik Bahçesi, Istambul.
- 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.
- Fraser-Jenkins, C.R. & al. (2017). An Annotated Checklist of Indian Pteridophytes 1: 1-562. Dehra Dun : BSMPS.
- Roux, J.P. (2016). The Lycopods and Ferns of Drakensberg and Lesotho: 1-384. Briza academic books, Pretoria, South Africa.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Roux, J.P. (2016). The Lycopods and Ferns of Drakensberg and Lesotho: 1-384. Briza academic books, Pretoria, South Africa.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 32 (1994).
- Fern Gaz. 14: 198 (1993)
- Burrows, S. Afr. Ferns: 258, t. 43/1, illustr. 62/260, 260a & b (1990)
- Schelpe & Anthony, F.S.A., Pterid.: 211, fig. 71/1 (1986)
- B.J.B.B. 53: 275 (1983)
- Jacobsen, Ferns S. Afr.: 395, fig. 298 (1983)
- Fl. Males. Ser. II, 1: 377 (1981)
- Schelpe & Diniz, Fl. Moçamb., Pterid.: 212 (1979)
- Schelpe, C.F.A., Pterid.: 155 (1977)
- J. S. Afr. Bot. 40: 150 (1974)
- Expl. Hydrobiol. Bassin L. Bangweolo & Luapula 8 (3) Ptérid.: 78, fig. 24A (1973)
- Schelpe, F.Z., Pterid.: 190, t. 55/E (1970)
- Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 38: 71 (1967)
Sources
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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