Polypodiaceae
Megalastrum

Megalastrum lanuginosum (Willd. ex Kaulf.) Holttum

First published in Gard. Bull. Singapore 39: 161 (1987)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tropical & S. Africa, W. Indian Ocean. It grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Extinct in:

Mauritius, Réunion

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • Gard. Bull. Strait Settlements 39:161 (1987);
  • U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 35 (1994).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Sep 1, 2008 Drege [s.n.] South Africa K000351142 Type Yes
Sep 1, 2008 Drege [s.n.] South Africa K000351143 Type Yes
[Tankmann] [2409] South Africa K000351144 Unknown Type Material Yes
Kamau, P.; Christenhusz, M.J.M [595] Kenya K000696576 No
Braithwaite, A.F. [258] South Africa Dryopteris lanuginosa K001907517 No
Braithwaite, A.F. [258] South Africa Dryopteris lanuginosa K001907518 No

Sources

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
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  • Flora of West Tropical Africa

    • Flora of West Tropical Africa
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
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  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images