Hymenophyllum splendidum Bosch

Hymenophyllaceae, Henk Beentje. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2008

Type

Type: Bioko [Fernando Po], Mann s.n. (K!, holo.; BM, L, iso.)

Morphology General Habit

Epiphyte or lithophyte.

Vegetative Multiplication Rhizomes

Rhizome creeping, branched, filiform, densely hairy with red-brown long-armed stellate hairs to 1 mm long

Morphology Leaves

Fronds spaced 1–6 cm apart, pendulous; stipe 2–10 cm long, winged in upper part, stellate-hairy; lamina dark green turning brown, linear-lanceolate in outline, 8–45 × 1.7–6 cm, 2-pinnatifid; pinnae in 8–24 pairs, rhomboid-oblong, to 3 × 1.2 cm; ultimate segments 6–15, more numerous along acroscopic margin, linear, to 2.5 mm wide, rounded at apex, denticulate with the projections bearing hairs; rachis winged throughout; lamina hairy throughout with yellowish stalked-stellate trichomes

Morphology Reproductive morphology Sori

Sori apical on terminal segments in distal half of lamina, 1–1.6 mm in diameter, indusial valves ciliate with branched hairs; receptacle included

Figures

Fig 1: 1-4, 9-12, p4

Ecology

Moist forest, where often near water; low epiphyte or on moist rock faces; may be matforming; 1200–2400(–3000) m

Conservation

Widespread; least concern (LC)

Distribution

Flora districts: U2 K4 K7 T2 T3 T6 T7 Range: Bioko, Cameroon and east to Kenya, south to Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe