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Asplenium cordatum (Thunb.) Sw.

Derivation of specific name

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cordatum: heart-shaped, referring to the two basal lobes of the pinna.
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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). Asplenium cordatum (Thunb.) Sw. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=102460
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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 erect or procumbent, 3-6 mm in diameter, scales dark brown, up to 4.5 mm long, lanceolate, tapering, margin paler. Fronds not proliferous, tufted, erect. Stipe short, up to 60 mm long, dark chestnut brown; scales shining, lanceolate, c. 3.5 mm. Lamina 2-15 × 1-5 cm, shallowly to deeply 2-pinnatifid, elliptic to oblanceolate in outline, subcoriaceous, inrolled when dry; basal pinnae gradually decrescent. Pinnae free, oblong-lanceolate, margins irregularly scalloped to incised, apex bluntly acute, base heart-shaped, undersurface very densely covered with pale reddish-brown scales. Rhachis not winged between pinnae; scales dark chestnut brown, lanceolate, 3mm long. Sori linear, up to 2 mm long, hardly visible because of the covering scales, exindusiate.
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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). Asplenium cordatum (Thunb.) Sw. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=102460
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
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Flora of Zimbabwe

Worldwide distribution

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Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe
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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). Asplenium cordatum (Thunb.) Sw. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=102460
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
partner site
Flora of Zimbabwe