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Blechnum australe
australe
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Hb P Ballings
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Hb P Ballings
Photo: Petra Ballings
Hb P Ballings
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| Status: | Native | |
| Description: |
Rhizome creeping with tufted, dimorphic fronds. Stipe 7-15 cm, pale brown and glabrous. Sterile lamina 28-56 × 3.5-130 cm, pinnate and narrowly elliptic in outline; sterile pinnae petiolate, at least below, glabrous with entire margins and a mucronate apex. The fertile lamina is usually longer than the sterile lamina, with linear pinnae; pinnae bearing linear sori are limited to the middle part of the lamina; indusium continuous. | |
| Derivation of specific name: | australe: southern, of the south (botanists thought this fern to be limited to the southern areas of Africa) | |
| Habitat: | Terrestrial in forest margins or lithophyte in rock crevices or at base of boulders along mountain streams, half shade. | |
| Altitude range: (metres) | Up to 2000 m | |
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| Worldwide distribution: | From Kenya and Tanzania southwards to Namibia and S Africa; also Madagascar, Tristan da Cuñha and Gough Island | |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | E | |
| Growth form: | TeLp | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species | |
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| Content last updated: | Saturday 17 February 2007 |
Other sources of information about Blechnum australe:
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Blechnum australeFlora Zambesiaca web site: Blechnum australe
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Blechnum australe
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Blechnum australe
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Blechnum australe
West African Plants database: Blechnum australe
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