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Derivation of specific name

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poiretii: named after Jean Louis Poiret (1755-1834), French botanist.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Adiantum poiretii J.E. Wikstr. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=101040
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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 widely creeping, c. 2 mm in diameter; rhizome scales brown, appressed, lanceolate, slightly ciliate. Fronds closely spaced or frequently tufted at the end of the rhizome, herbaceous, glabrous, arching. Stipe up to 35 cm long, dark brown to black, shiny, glabrous. Lamina 2-4 pinnate, broadly ovate-deltate in outline, 30 × 25 cm. Rhachis and stalks black, shiny, glabrous. Pinnules deciduous, 1.5 × 2 cm, semicircular to obdeltate, lobed on the outer margin, veins ending in the sinuses of the lobes of the outer margin. Sori 1-6, on the undersurface of the pinnules along the outer margin, indusial flap oblong to crescent shaped, up to 2.5 mm long, glabrous, sometimes surrounded by some yellow powder.
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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). Adiantum poiretii J.E. Wikstr. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=101040
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
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Worldwide distribution

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Africa, Indian Ocean Islands, Asia Tristan da Cunha, tropical America.
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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). Adiantum poiretii J.E. Wikstr. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=101040
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
partner site
Flora of Zimbabwe