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Schizaea tenella Kaulf.

Species

Pteridophytes > Schizaeales > Schizaeaceae > Schizaea

Characteristics

Rhizome subterranean, decumbent, branched, up to 3 mm in diam., with golden-brown hairs up to 4 mm long. Fronds erect, crowded, dimorphic. Stipe not differentiated from lamina, abaxially with a single row of conspicuous stomata on either side of midrib. Lamina coriaceous; sterile lamina simple, narrowly linear, up to 300 x 0.8 mm, glabrous; fertile lamina distally pinnatifid. Rachis straight; segments conduplicate, up to 15 pairs, pectinately arranged, simple, longer towards base, up to 5 x 0.6 mm, margins long-fimbriate, glabrous adaxially and abaxially. Sporangia in a single row on either side of fertile segment costa, sessile, almost symmetric, ovoid or ellipsoid, with a subapical annulus.
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Rhizome up to 40 x 4 mm, densely set with shining brown multicellular hairs. Fronds filiform, glabrous, up to 230 x c. 0.5 mm, sulcate, with a poorly delimited dark brown stipe 3-10 mm long; apical fertile portion up to 13 mm long with rhachis between fertile pinnae ascending at c. 45o; fertile pinnae up to 4 x 0.5 mm, becoming progressively shorter towards frond apex, fringed with pale hairs.
Perennial with underground rhizome. Fronds erect, linear, to 25 cm long, fertile portion with a straight ascending rachis, pinnae to 4 mm long. Null Sporangia borne in 2 rows on either side of costa.
Rhizome creeping, densely set with multicellular hairs. Rhachis between fertile pinnae ascending with fertile pinnae progressively shorter towards apex. Fronds filiform, up to 230 x ± 0.5 mm.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention evergreen
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Soil humidity 4-10
Soil texture 7-9
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Schizaea tenella world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17220760-1
WFO ID wfo-0001110741
COL ID 6XVCZ
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Synonyms

Microschizaea tenella Schizaea tenella
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