Derivation of specific name
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
gnidioides: like Gnidia, a genus in the Thymelaeaceae family which sometimes has similar leaves.
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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). Huperzia gnidioides (L.f.) Trevis. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=100020
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Description
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Stems pendulous or erect, four or five times divided, up to 50 cm long. Foliage leaves 14 × 2 mm, strongly overlapping, oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, acute to sharply obtuse, light to dark green, shiny. Sporophylls distinctly smaller than foliage leaves, c. 3 × 1.5 mm, ovate, attenuate. Sporangia kidney-shaped, flattened, hardly covered by the sporophylls.
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Huperzia gnidioides (L.f.) Trevis. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=100020
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
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Burundi, DRC, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Swaziland, S Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe. Also Madagascar, Comoro and Mascarene Islands.
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- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Huperzia gnidioides (L.f.) Trevis. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=100020
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
