Zygophlebia L.E. Bishop

Parris, B.S. (2005) Grammitidaceae Flora of Tropical East Africa

Roux, J.P. (2001) Conspectus of Southern African Pteridophyta. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report 13

Description of the genus

Rhizomes short-creeping, dorsiventral, stipes in two rows, articulated to rhizome, phyllopodia present; rhizomes with brown non-clathrate scales that are usually glandular at least on margin. Fronds pinnate or deeply pinnately divided, with red-brown simple eglandular hairs, catenate branched hairs often with glandular apex to branches, and simple glandular and catenate simple glandular hairs; veins pinnately branched in pinnae, branchlets often forked, sometimes anastomosing; hydathodes absent on vein endings on adaxial surface of lamina. Sori on surface of lamina or slightly sunken in broad shallow depressions, ± circular to broadly elliptic in outline, in two rows per pinna, one each side of pinna mid-vein, with simple or branched glandular receptacular paraphyses, the glands never white when young; sporangia glabrous.

Worldwide: Tropical montane areas of the New world and Africa including Madagascar

DRC: 1 taxon.

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villosissima (Hook.) L.E. BishopDescription

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