190.900 Polystichum Roth
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Pteridophyta Flora Zambesiaca
Description of the genus
Plants terrestrial or lithophytic. Rhizome short, erect or creeping; rhizome scales brown, entire, densely set. Stipe not articulated, scaly at base. Fronds tufted, herbaceous to coriaceous. Lamina narrowly elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, pinnate to 3-pinnate, but pinnae not basiscopically developed. Pinnae and pinnules unequal at the base, crenate to aristate-dentate, veins free. Pinnae costae with raised edges on the upper surface. Sori round; indusia peltate. Derivation of name: polys: many, stichos: row; referring to the rows of sorion the pinnae. Worldwide: c. 220 species, near cosmopolitan distribution. Zimbabwe: 5 taxa. |
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