Derivation of specific name
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
borbonicum: of Bourbon; this fern was first described from Bourbon, the original name for Réunion.
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Polyphlebium borbonicum (Bosch.) Ebihara & Dubuisson Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=100520
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Description
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Rhizome creeping, filiform; covered with long brown unbranched hairs, hairs up to 1 mm long. Fronds spaced apart. Stipe 6-30 mm long, narrowly winged in distal half to three quarters, glabrous. Rhachis winged. Lamina 25-65 × 15-50 mm, ovate to narrowly dentate to lanceolate in outline, base truncate to broadly cuneate, 2- or 3-pinnatifid; pinnae spreading at 45 to 90° from the rhachis; ultimate lobes linear, entire, rounded, false veins or drying fold absent. Sori narrowly obconical, about twice as long as wide, borne in the upper half of the frond, narrowly winged by the lamina for its whole length, soral lips flared.
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- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Polyphlebium borbonicum (Bosch.) Ebihara & Dubuisson Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=100520
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Southern Africa, central and tropical Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarenes.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Polyphlebium borbonicum (Bosch.) Ebihara & Dubuisson Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=100520
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings