Asplenium hypomelas Kuhn

Species

Pteridophytes > Polypodiales > Aspleniaceae > Asplenium

Characteristics

Rhizome erect, often long, set with narrowly lanceolate, attenuate, nitid, brown, irregularly fimbriate, hair-pointed rhizome-scales c. 10 mm long. Fronds tufted, herbaceous, not gemmiferous; stipe dark brown, densely set at first with fimbriate, hair-pointed scales; lamina lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, up to 1.4 x 0.46 m, deeply 4-to 5-pinnatifid, basal pinnae reduced; pinnae in up to 25 pairs, lanceolate-attenuate; pinnules in up to 18 pairs, ovate-lanceolate, acroscopic lobe largest, otherwise divided into somewhat rhombic 3-to 5-lobed segments; ultimate lobes oblanceolate, acute, c. 1.2 mm broad, unequally expanded around sori. Sori extending from costa to margin, c. 1.2 mm long; indusium membranous, entire, c. 0.75 mm broad.
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Rhizome erect, often long, set with narrowly lanceolate, hair-pointed rhizome scales. Lamina conspicuously expanded at sorus. Sori as long as broad, extending from costa to margin, ± 1.2 mm long.
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Epiphyte in mossy forest zone; 4, 200 to 6, 000 ft. alt.
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Soil humidity 4-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Asplenium hypomelas world distribution map, present in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Malawi, Rwanda, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Sao Tome and Principe, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17045210-1
WFO ID wfo-0001110837
COL ID HKLS
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Synonyms

Davallia hollandii Davallia nigrescens Asplenium floccigerum Asplenium hollandii Loxoscaphe nigrescens Asplenium hypomelas