Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Terrestrial plants. Rhizome erect or creeping; rhizome scales broad, mostly entire, concolorous.
Fronds tufted, herbaceous.
Stipe not articulated, often with persistent scales.
Lamina broadly deltate to lanceolate, pinnate to quadripinnate, basal pinnae often basiscopically enlarged but not as long as the lamina. Lamina scales/hairs, if present, unistratose(1 layer) at the base.
Ultimate segments crenate to serrate, rarely aristate-dentate. Veins free, forked.
Sori round, superficial, dorsal, on veins end; indusia kidney-shaped to cordate, rarely exindusiate.
- 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). Dryopteris Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=68
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
