Common names: curly grass-fern; cockscomb fern, toothbrush fern (Eng.); grasvaring (Afr.)
Family: Schizaeaceae
... of flowers, ferns produce spores held in sporangia. In Schizaea , these sporangia are held along each side of the ... but become hard and brown as the frond ages and decays. Schizaea pectinata is found growing on dry mountain slopes in ... to 1 830 m above sea level, in Zimbabwe and Malawi. Schizaea pectinata is an often overlooked fern of grassland ...
29 / 07 / 2019 | Karen Wall | Harold Porter NBG
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