Pteridaceae
Hemionitis

Hemionitis quadripinnata (Forssk.) Christenh.

First published in Global Fl. 4: 20 (2018)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tropical & S. Africa, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, N. Yemen. It is a perennial or lithophyte and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Comoros, Ethiopia, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2008 Katende, T.; Sheil, D. [775] Uganda Pellaea quadripinnata K000197483 No
Sep 1, 1998 Etuge, M. [2293] Cameroon Pellaea quadripinnata K000746774 No
Sep 1, 1998 Zapfack, L. [811] Cameroon Pellaea quadripinnata K000746772 No
Sep 1, 1998 Pollard, B.J. [74] Cameroon Pellaea quadripinnata K000746773 No
Jan 1, 1996 Thomas, D.W. [9452] Cameroon Pellaea quadripinnata K000011704 No
Jan 1, 1996 Cheek, M. [3681] Cameroon Pellaea quadripinnata K000541976 No
Kamau, P.; Christenhusz, M.J.M [605] Kenya Pellaea quadripinnata K000696598 No
Braithwaite, A.F. [150] South Africa Pellaea quadripinnata K001532830 Yes
[Unknown] [42] South Africa Pellaea quadripinnata K000435673 Unknown Type Material Yes
Sutherland [s.n.] South Africa Pellaea quadripinnata K000435672 Unknown Type Material Yes
Kamau, P.; Christenhusz, M.J.M [629] Kenya Pellaea quadripinnata K000696599 No
Plant, R.W. [318] South Africa Pellaea quadripinnata K000435566 Type Yes

Sources

  • Flora of West Tropical Africa

    • Flora of West Tropical Africa
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • 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