153.000 Pteridium Gled. ex Scop.

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Description of the genus

Rhizome creeping. Fronds stiff, hard. Stipe with a felt of hairs just below ground-level. Lamina 3-4-pinnate, the lower surface subglabrous to densely tomentose. Sori linear, submarginal, with an outer pseudoindusium formed by the reflexed leaf margin and an inner indusium which may be reduced.

Derivation of name: Pteridium: small fern

Worldwide: 1 cosmopolitan species

Malawi: 2 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
aquilinum (L.) Kuhn subsp. capense (Thunb.) C.Chr.	N,C,S	Description, Image
aquilinum (L.) Kuhn subsp. centrali-africanum Hieron. ex R.E.Fr.	N,C,S	Description, Image

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