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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Rhizome shortly creeping to ascending; rhizome scales pale brown or more frequently black, apex slowly tapering to a point, margin pale, entire, up to 4 mm long. Fronds closely spaced. Stipe 6-14 cm, brown, grooved above, set with brown, hairlike scales up to 3 mm long. Lamina 9-17 × 3.5-7 cm, narrowly ovate to lanceolate in outline, 2-3 pinnate; ultimate segments oblong to narrowly hastate, venation obscure, free, hairless, undersurface occasionally set with a few scales along the costules. Rhachis and secondary rhachises brown, grooved above, densely covered with lanceolate scales. Sori marginal; indusium continuous, subentire. |
| Notes: | Very difficult to distinguish from both varieties of C. involuta, some feel that it should be treated as a variety of that species. |
| Derivation of specific name: | botswanae: from Botswana, the type specimen was collected in this country. |
| Habitat: | Dry, rocky outcrops in mixed woodland, in areas that have a long, hot dry period in the winter and spring months. |
| Worldwide distribution: | Botswana, South Africa. |
| Botswana distribution: | SE |
| Growth form(s): | Lithophyte, terrestrial. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. (1990). Southern African Ferns and Fern Allies. Frandsen, Sandton. Pages 148 - 149. (Includes a picture). Crouch, N.R., Klopper, R.R., Burrows, J.E. & Burrows, S.M. (2011). Ferns of Southern Africa, A comprehensive guide Struik Nature Pages 388 - 389. (Includes a picture). Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds) (2003). Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14 Page 81. Roux, J.P. (2001). Conspectus of Southern African Pteridophyta. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report 13 Page 61. Roux, J.P. (2009). Synopsis of the Lycopodiophyta and Pteridophyta of Africa, Madagascar and neighbouring islands Page 180. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 15. |
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