Collections made by Blake Goldsmith

Maidenhair fern, leaves fine, of delicate texture with thin shiny black rhachis

Cited in Flora Zambesiaca Vol. 7 part 2: 422 (1985)

Old fertile leaves quite black on the underside; leaves very hairy, less than 15 cm long

Leaves with cordate bases, scabrid; fruit bright red, small

Small simple leaves with only a few found to be fertile. Brown spores occur in narrow rectangles on the top portion of the leaf.

Tall herb with showy white to delicate mauve flowers of very regular petal lobe arrangement. Foul smelling.

Dense patches of this plant have a sour smell. Pure white flowers and tapered petals and a mauvish spot on the lip.

Common. Leaves very showy, often over 3' long with both surfaces shiny, darker green above, sporangia in small dots.

Fern pinnately compound, tufted, with fronds over 2 metres tall; sori round evenly spaced, not quite marginal, light brown; stipe and rhachis deeply channeled above.

Single fronds erect and flattened in one plane with pinnate leaves tapering to a broad point and leaflets distinctly overlapping on the undersurface.

Fern with pinnate leaves. Leaflets pointed, long lobed. Small plant developes on tip vegetatively.

Fronds pinnate with pinnae mainly alternate & tapered to fine tips. Distinctly pilose on undersurface of pinnae midribs.

Flattened in one plane & often trifoliolate; sori in blackish lines along leaf margin.

Fronds with pinnae curling at tips; spores in narrow marginal lines; pinnate.

Upper leaf surface covered in woolly hairs each having a distinct "O" shaped loop at its apex. No secondary growth seen in this area but the specimens have minute Lemna species adhering to them.

Common fern to 3' tall. Vegetative buds evident on fronds

Fern with simple linear dark green glabrous fronds in tufts. Up to half a meter long, hanging almost vertically.