Lonchitis hirsuta L.

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Description:

Rhizome erect, massive, forms a caudex up to 20 cm in diameter. Fronds tufted, arching, up to 3m long. Stipe up to 1 m, straw-coloured, sparsely set with short scales. Lamina up to 2 m long, ovate in outline, 2- to 3-pinnatifid and hairy on both surfaces. Pinnae increasingly deeply incised from the apex to the base with shallowly lobed pinnules. Sori circular to crescent-shaped, situated at the base of the sinuses between the pinnules; indusium present.

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Rights holder/AuthorMark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings, Flora of Zimbabwe
Sourcehttp://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=101360

Derivation of specific name:

natalensis: of Natal, South Africa from where W.J. Hooker first described this fern in 1851.

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Rights holder/AuthorMark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings, Flora of Zimbabwe
Sourcehttp://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=101360

Worldwide distribution:

Widespread in Africa and Madagascan region.

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Rights holder/AuthorMark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings, Flora of Zimbabwe
Sourcehttp://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=101360

Barcode data: Lonchitis hirsuta:

The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.


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Rights holder/AuthorSujeevan Ratnasingham, Paul D.N. Hebert, Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
Sourcehttp://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=424170

Statistics of barcoding coverage: Lonchitis hirsuta:

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 2
Specimens with Barcodes: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1

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Rights holder/AuthorSujeevan Ratnasingham, Paul D.N. Hebert, Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
Sourcehttp://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=424170

Statistics of barcoding coverage: Blotiella natalensis:

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1

Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Rights holder/AuthorSujeevan Ratnasingham, Paul D.N. Hebert, Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
Sourcehttp://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=461392
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