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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-1316
Category: Pteridophyta
Taxonomical identification: Asplenium-type
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
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, brown, 35–45 × 22–26 μm, with smooth surface except low subhyaline plain folds. These type of spores are very common within the Asplenium genus, but affiliation with other genera is also apparent.
(Sub-) Fossil occurence: No information
Co-occurence: No information
Modern occurence: 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