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| Status: | Native |
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Rhizome used for support, reaching up to 2 m; rhizome scales lanceolate in outline, narrow, brownish red, formed of elongated cells. Sterile fronds imparipinnate, subcoracious. Stipe 4-9 cm, strawcoloured, grooved, with scales, winged in young fronds. Lamina 15-20 x 3-5 cm, c. 24 pairs of laterale pinnae; pinnae c. 8 x 2 cm, oblong in outline, base equal, rounded or truncate, apex acute, veins simples; lower pinnae not or hardly reduced; terminal pinna lanceolate in outline. Rhachis flattened, winged in young plants, loosely scaly. Fertile fronds slightly smaller than sterile fronds; lamina with narrow pinnae, oblong in outline, with a cordate base. |
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| Notes: | In Angola only known from Cabinda. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Nigeria, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, DR Congo and Angola. |
| Provinces: | CA |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola Strelitzia 22 SANBI, Pretoria Page 212. Meerts, P. et al. (2026). A checklist of the vascular plants of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. PhytoKeys 277 |