Pteris buchananii Bak.Ap.Sim

Species

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Characteristics

Diameter, set with sparse, ovate, acute, dark brown, entire rhizome-scales up to 4.5 x 3 mm. Fronds widely spaced, herbaceous; stipe erect, stramineous to brown, glabrous, smooth, up to 1 m tall; lamina ascending, broadly deltate, up to 0.5 x 0.5 m, 4-pinnatifid with basal pinnae nearly as long as lamina and basiscopically developed; ultimate lobes often slightly falcate, adnate to rhachis and decurrent, glabrous, up to 26 x 5 mm, sterile lobes and apices of fertile lobes serrate; costules spinous ventrally; veins anastomosing only along more broadly winged parts of costae and costules; rhachis stramineous, glabrous, smooth but with a darker channel on upper surface. Indusia erose, membranous.
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Rhizome widely creeping, up to 10 mm in diam.; scales dark brown, ovate, up to 12 mm, entire. Fronds erect, widely spaced, up to 1.5 m long. Stipe stramineous to brown, glabrous, up to 1 m long, up to 8 mm in diam. Lamina herbaceous, broadly deltate, up to 500 x 500 mm, 4-pinnatifid. Pinnae: basal pinnae nearly as long as lamina and basiscopically developed; ultimate lobes often slightly falcate, adnate to rachis and decurrent, glabrous, up to 26 x 5 mm; sterile lobes and apices of fertile lobes serrate; costules spinous adaxially; veins anastomosing along broadly winged parts of costae and costules. Indusium membranous, entire to repand, up to 1 mm wide.
Perennial with widely spreading rhizome. Fronds arching, soft, to 1.5 m, stipe glabrous, lamina broadly deltate, 4-pinnatifid, proximal pinnae basiscopically developed, ultimate lobes falcate, adnate, apices serrate, costules spinulose beneath, veins reticulate, forming costal areolae. Sori along lobe margins, indusium erose.
Rhizome widely creeping, set with dark brown rhizome scales. Lamina 4-pinnatifid with basal pinnae. Ultimate lobes adnate to rhachis and decurrent, up to 26 x 5 mm. Sterile lobes and apices of fertile lobes serrate.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
Root system rhizome
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Environment

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Soil humidity 4-7
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Distribution

Pteris buchananii world distribution map, present in Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17211320-1
WFO ID wfo-0001110821
COL ID 78L9S
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Synonyms

Pteris subquadripinnata Pteris buchananii