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  1. Family: Aspleniaceae Newman
    1. Genus: Thelypteris Schmidel

      1. Thelypteris confluens (Thunb.) C.V.Morton

        This species is accepted, and its native range is Tropical & Subtropical Old World.

    [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

    Thelypteris confluens (Thunb.) C.V.Morton appears in other Kew resources:

    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

    First published in Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 38: 71 (1967)

    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.
    • 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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    Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0