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The database is hosted by Kiel University
and is established by Magda Wieckowska-
Lüth, Wiebke Kirleis and Kay Schmütz,
Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology.
© Wieckowska-Lüth/Kirleis/Schmütz 2020
Type: UG-1243
Category: Pteridophyta
Taxonomical identification: cf. Asplenium sp.
First publication: Gelorini, V., Verbeken, A., van Geel, B., Cocqyt, C. and Vershuren, D. (2011) Modern non-pollen palynomorphs from East African lake sediments. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 164, 143–173
Other publication/s:
Burrows, J.E. (1990) Southern African Ferns & Fern Allies. Frandsen Publishers, Sandton
Tryon, A.F. and Lugardon, B. (1990) Spores of the Pteridophyta. Surface, wall structure, and diversity based on Electron Microscope Studies. Springer-Verlag, New York
Hemp, A. (2002) Ecology of the pteridophytes on the southern slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro: I. Altitudinal distribution. Plant Ecology 159, 211–239
Description: Spores bean-shaped, yellow to brown, 42–55 × 28–38 μm, smooth, covered with perisporium developed into fairly high and coarse, subhyaline ridges. These ridges anastomose or not, bear small echinae (spines) on top and columella-like structures underneath.
(Sub-) Fossil occurence: No information
Co-occurence: No information
Modern occurence: Asplenium is one of the largest fern genera, distributed worldwide from Greenland and Europe to South America and New Zealand (Tryon and Lugardon, 1990). It occurs in a wide variety of exposed or partly shaded habitats, e.g., on rocks, in low-altitude semi-deciduous woodland, wet evergreen forest and (sub)montane rain forest (Burrows, 1990; Hemp, 2002).
Palaeoenvironmental indication: No information