Anemia angolensis Alston

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Anemia angolensis

Photo: Petra Ballings
SRGH

Anemia angolensis

Photo: Petra Ballings
SRGH

Anemia angolensis

Photo: Petra Ballings
SRGH

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Synonyms: Anemia schimperiana C.Presl var. angustiloba Bonap.
Animia simii Tardieu var. angustiloba (Bonap.) Pic.Serm.
Hemianemia schimperiana (C.Presl) C.F.Reed var. angustiloba (Bonap.) C.F.Reed
Common names:
Frequency:
Status: Native
Description:
Rhizome horizontal, densely covered with red-brown hairs (up to 5 mm long). Fronds tufted. Stipe with long hairs. Sterile lamina up to 11 cm × 7.5 cm, ovate-deltate to ovate-oblong in outline, bipinnatifid to tripinnatifid; ultimate segments rounded, adnate, minutely shallowly toothed, sparsely hairy on both surfaces. Fertile pinnea tripinnatifid, ultimate segments hairy, petiolules up to 5.5 cm. Sporangia in two rows.         
Notes: Similar to A. simii but fertile segments hairy.
Derivation of specific name: angolensis: of Angola
Habitat: Rocky places in seasonally dry miombo woodland, terrestrial or lithophytic.
Altitude range: (metres) 600 - 1550 m
Worldwide distribution: Angola, DRC, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe distribution: N
Growth form(s): Lithophyte, terrestrial.
Endemic status:
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Images last updated: Thursday 22 September 2011
Literature:

Burrows, J.E. (1990). Southern African Ferns and Fern Allies. Frandsen, Sandton. Page 59. (Includes a picture).

Burrows, J.E. & Burrows, S.M. (1993). An annotated check-list of the pteridophytes of Malawi Kirkia 14(1) Page 83.

Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 43. (Includes a picture).

Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 9.

Jacobsen, W.B.G. (1983). The Ferns and Fern Allies of Southern Africa. Butterworths, Durban and Pretoria. Pages 176 - 177. (Includes a picture).

Kornas, J. (1979). Distribution and ecology of the Pteridophytes in Zambia Polska Akademia Nauk Wydzial II Nauk Biologicznych Pages 42 - 43.

Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 5.

Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 12.

Roux, J.P. (2001). Conspectus of Southern African Pteridophyta. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report 13 Page 52.

Roux, J.P. (2009). Synopsis of the Lycopodiophyta and Pteridophyta of Africa, Madagascar and neighbouring islands Page 51.

Schelpe, E.A.C.L.E. (1970). Pteridophyta Flora Zambesiaca Page 54.

Schelpe, E.A.C.L.E. & Diniz, M.A. (1979). Pteridophyta Flora de Mocambique Junta de Investigacoes Cientificas do Ultramar; Centro de Botanica Pages 47 - 49. (Includes a picture).


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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Anemia angolensis.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=100630, retrieved 12 November 2024

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