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Polyphlebium borbonicum (v. d. Bosch) Ebihara & Dubuisson

Derivation of specific name

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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
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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
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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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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
original
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Flora of Zimbabwe

Worldwide distribution

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Southern Africa, central and tropical Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarenes.
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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
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
partner site
Flora of Zimbabwe