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| Status: | Native |
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Rhizome creeping, rhizome scales brown, linear and tapering to a fine point 4.5–5 × 0.5 mm, with a dark central stripe and pale margins. Fronds tufted, 22–55 cm tall. Stipe purple-brown or chestnut to black, 3–14 cm long, glabrous except at the extreme base. Lamina narrowly oblong-lanceolate in outline, 17–49 × 3–8.5 cm, 1–2-pinnate, if 1-pinnate then pinnae deeply pinnatifid; pinnae in 15–18 pairs, oblong-lanceolate in outline, 1–6 × 0.5–2.8 cm; pinnules or ultimate segments narrowly oblong, 0.5–1 cm × 2–5 mm, apex rounded, crenate to pinnatifid, glabrous; venation obscure. Sori minute, less than 1 mm in diameter, on margins of segments; indusium minute, membranous, entire. |
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| Habitat: | Among rocks in woodland. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, DR Congo, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia |
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| Growth form(s): | Lithophyte, terrestrial. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola Strelitzia 22 SANBI, Pretoria Page 213. Kornas, J. (1979). Distribution and ecology of the Pteridophytes in Zambia Polska Akademia Nauk Wydzial II Nauk Biologicznych Page 47. Malaisse, F., Schaijes, M. & D'Outreligne, C. (2016). Copper-Cobalt Flora of Upper Katanga and Copperbelt Les Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux Page 83. (Includes a picture). Meerts, P. et al. (2026). A checklist of the vascular plants of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. PhytoKeys 277 Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 15. Roux, J.P. (2001). Conspectus of Southern African Pteridophyta. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report 13 Page 61. Roux, J.P. (2009). Synopsis of the Lycopodiophyta and Pteridophyta of Africa, Madagascar and neighbouring islands Page 180. Schelpe, E.A.C.L.E. (1970). Pteridophyta Flora Zambesiaca Pages 123 - 124. |