Asplenium protensum Schrad.

Species

Pteridophytes > Polypodiales > Aspleniaceae > Asplenium

Characteristics

Rhizome ascending, up to 5 mm in diameter, set with appressed, dark brown, narrowly ovate-deltate, pseudoserrate rhizome-scales up to 2 mm long with paler borders. Fronds closely spaced, herbaceous, gemmiferous; stipe dark brown, densely scaly at first with appressed scales of different sizes, also with hairs; lamina very narrowly elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, up to 650 x 130 mm, pinnate to shallowly 2-pinnatifid, lower pinnae decrescent; pinnae in up to 55 pairs, base unequally cuneate, shallowly pinnatifid into linear-oblong, acute, usually 2-or 3-fid lobes or broadly cuneate and deeply incised lobes, set with minute, pale, hair-like scales below and along costa above; rhachis winged for most of its length, densely pubescent dorsally with pale hairs, and set with occasional ovate scales. Sori borne between costa and lobes, on outermost branch-vein supplying lobes, up to 8 mm long; indusium linear, membranous, entire, c. 0.4 mm broad.
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Rhizome short-decumbent or erect, up to 90 mm long, up to 7 mm in diam., with stipe bases and greyish black scales, ovate, up to 2.2 x 1.2 mm, crenulate. Fronds up to 12 per plant, caespitose, suberect to arching, up to 1.1 m long. Stipe firm, dark brown to black, up to 250 mm long, up to 3.4 mm in diam., sparsely set with greyish black, ovate to lanceolate scales, up to 4 x 1 mm, crenulate. Lamina 1-pinnate, narrowly elliptic, up to 800 x 100 mm, with up to 58 closely spaced pinna pairs, often with a scaled proliferous bud adaxially near lamina apex. Pinnae herbaceous, sessile, inequilaterally narrowly trullate to lanceolate, variously pinnatifid into oblong to narrow-cuneate segments, adaxially hirsute along costa and veins, abaxially with ovate to filiform clathrate scales similar to those along rachis. Sori linear, up to 4 mm long, up to 10 pairs per pinna. Indusium entire, up to 1 mm wide.
Perennial with suberect rhizome. Fronds to 1.1 m, arching, proliferous on rachis near lamina apex, stipe with scales and short hairs, lamina herbaceous, narrowly elliptic, 1-pinnate to 2-pinnatifid, pinnae to 6.5 cm long, with up to 55 pinna pairs, inaequilaterally narrowly trullate to lanceolate, to 5.3 cm long, pinnatifid into linear lobes, upper surface densely hirsute along costa, sparsely hirsute along veins, lower surface with scales and few-celled hairs along the costa, veins and often also between veins, rachis with short hairs. Sori linear, indusium entire, to 4 mm long.
Rhizome ascending, set with dark brown rhizome scales. Fronds gemmiferous. Proliferating bud borne on rhachis on or below terminal segment. Rhachis pubescent below. Lamina up to 650 x 130 mm. Pinnae shallowly pinnatifid; lobes usually 2-or 3-fid. Sori borne between costa and lobes.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support epiphyte
Foliage retention evergreen
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Environment

Epiphytic or rarely terrestrial, in montane forest; 5, 600–8, 000 ft. alt.
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Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 7-8
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Asplenium protensum world distribution map, present in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Comoros, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, Mauritius, Malawi, Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, Sudan, Somalia, Sao Tome and Principe, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, Yemen, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17049730-1
WFO ID wfo-0001108070
COL ID HL8W
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 705904
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Synonyms

Asplenium protensum Asplenium protensum var. pseudohorridum