Blotiella reducta (C.Chr.) R.M.Tryon

Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 191: 100 (1962).

Lonchitis reducta C.Chr. Feddes Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis. Beihefte 9: 370 (1911).

REPRESENTATIVE SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — Guinea. Nimba Mts, top end of Zié River Valley, 1540 m, 22. VI.2007, Jongkind 7796 (K, P, WAG) ; Nimba Mts, old mine shaft, 1260 m, 1.VII.2007, Jongkind 7899 (K, WAG) ; Pic de Fon, 1255 m, 9.IX.2011, Jongkind 11052 (K, P, WAG) ; Pita et environs, 950 m, II.1910, Pobéguin 28 2247 (holo-, P [P00482720]; iso-, BM, P [P00482722]) .

HABITAT AND DISTRIBUTION. — In Guinea, rocky places between 950 and 1600 m, usually sheltered from direct impact of rain by overhanging rocks.

NOTES

The description of the new species does not mean that all herbarium sheets from West Africa can now be easily identified with certainty because specimens of the fronds are sometimes clipped into pieces too small to be identified.

Several other specimens examined in this study may represent a hybrid or belong to another distinct undescribed species; additional complete collections are needed to determine the status of these specimens.