The Pteridaceae family diversity in Togo
Author
Abotsi, Komla Elikplim
Author
Radji, Aboudou R.
Author
Rouhan, Germinal
Author
Dubuisson, Jean-Yves
Author
Kokou, Kouami
text
Biodiversity Data Journal
2015
3
5078
5078
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e5078
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e5078
1314-2828--5078
Ceratopteris thalictroides (L.) Brongn.
Acrostichum siliquosum
L.,
Pteris thalictroides
(L.) Sw.,
P. siliquosum
(L.) P. Beauv.,
P. cornuta
P. Beauv.,
Ceratopteris gaudichaudii
Brongn.,
C. cornuta
(P. Beauv.) Lepr,
C. siliquosa
(L.) Copel,
C. thalictroides Schelpe var. thalictroides
,
C. thalictroides var. cornuta
(P. Beauv.) Schelpe
Materials
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: catalogNumber:
11963
; recordNumber: 4671; recordedBy:
K. Kulo
; lifeStage:
Adult
; reproductiveCondition: Fertile; Taxon: nameAccordingToID: The Plant List; scientificName: Ceratopteristhalictroides (L.) Brongn.; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Monilophyta; class: Polypodiidae; order: Polypodiales; family: Pteridaceae; genus: Ceratopteris; specificEpithet: thalictroides; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Brongn.; Location: continent: Africa; country:
Togo
; stateProvince: Maritime; decimalLatitude:
6.3422222
; decimalLongitude:
1.1116667
; geodeticDatum: WGS 1984; Identification: identifiedBy:
J.-F. Brunel
; dateIdentified: /4/1978; Event: eventDate:
/4/1978
; Record Level: institutionID: Herbarium togoense; collectionID: TOGO
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: catalogNumber:
11964
; recordNumber: 60; recordedBy:
K. Kokou
; lifeStage:
Adult
; reproductiveCondition: Fertile; Taxon: nameAccordingToID: The Plant List; scientificName: Ceratopteristhalictroides (L.) Brongn.; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Monilophyta; class: Polypodiidae; order: Polypodiales; family: Pteridaceae; genus: Ceratopteris; specificEpithet: thalictroides; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Brongn.; Location: continent: Africa; country:
Togo
; stateProvince: Plateaux; decimalLatitude:
7.4333333
; decimalLongitude:
1.4166667
; geodeticDatum: WGS 1984; Identification: identifiedBy:
K. Kokou
; dateIdentified: 8/11/1989; Event: eventDate:
8/11/1989
; Record Level: institutionID: Herbarium togoense; collectionID: TOGO
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: catalogNumber:
11965
; recordNumber: 86bis; recordedBy:
K. Akpagana
; lifeStage:
Adult
; reproductiveCondition: Fertile; Taxon: nameAccordingToID: The Plant List; scientificName: Ceratopteristhalictroides (L.) Brongn.; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Monilophyta; class: Polypodiidae; order: Polypodiales; family: Pteridaceae; genus: Ceratopteris; specificEpithet: thalictroides; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Brongn.; Location: continent: Africa; country:
Togo
; stateProvince: Plateaux; decimalLatitude:
7.4333333
; decimalLongitude:
1.4166667
; geodeticDatum: WGS 1984; Identification: identifiedBy:
K. Akpagana
; dateIdentified: 1982; Event: eventDate:
1982
; Record Level: institutionID: Herbarium togoense; collectionID: TOGO
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: catalogNumber:
11966
; recordNumber: 63; recordedBy:
K. Kokou
; lifeStage:
Adult
; reproductiveCondition: Fertile; Taxon: nameAccordingToID: The Plant List; scientificName: Ceratopteristhalictroides (L.) Brongn.; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Monilophyta; class: Polypodiidae; order: Polypodiales; family: Pteridaceae; genus: Ceratopteris; specificEpithet: thalictroides; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Brongn.; Location: continent: Africa; country:
Togo
; stateProvince: Plateaux; decimalLatitude:
7.4333333
; decimalLongitude:
1.4166667
; geodeticDatum: WGS 1984; Identification: identifiedBy:
K. Kokou
; dateIdentified: 8/11/1989; Event: eventDate:
8/11/1989
; Record Level: institutionID: Herbarium togoense; collectionID: TOGO
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: catalogNumber:
11969
; recordNumber: 7677; recordedBy:
J.-F. Brunel
; lifeStage:
Adult
; reproductiveCondition: Fertile; Taxon: nameAccordingToID: The Plant List; scientificName: Ceratopteristhalictroides (L.) Brongn.; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Monilophyta; class: Polypodiidae; order: Polypodiales; family: Pteridaceae; genus: Ceratopteris; specificEpithet: thalictroides; taxonRank: species; scientificNameAuthorship: (L.) Brongn.; Location: continent: Africa; country:
Togo
; stateProvince: Plateaux; decimalLatitude:
7.4333333
; decimalLongitude:
1.4166667
; geodeticDatum: WGS 1984; Identification: identifiedBy:
J.-F. Brunel
; dateIdentified: /6/1982; Event: eventDate:
/6/1977
; Record Level: institutionID: Herbarium togoense; collectionID: TOGO
Ecological interactions
Native status
Native
Conservation status
Least Concern
Distribution
Togo (Ecological Zones 2, 3 and 5), USA, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Ecuador, Brazil, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, Australia, Taiwan, China, Japan, Ryukyu Isl., India, Andaman Isl., Nicobar Isl., Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Sulawesi, Hawaii (I) (Kauai (I), Oahu (I)), Fiji (I), Micronesia, Palau Isl., Southern Marianas, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Zanzibar, Somalia, Sudan, Congo, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Ethiopia
Notes
Ceratopteris thalictroides
is an annual aquatic fern, with dimorphic pale-green fronds, irregularly pinnate. Sterile fronds are wider than the fertile fronds. They have a thin texture and are traversed by anastomosing veins. The sterile fronds have a stem of 8 to 25 cm long, ovate to deltoid lamina, 20 to 40 cm long and 7-30 cm wide, pinnate, pinnatifid or 2-3-pinnatifid, with winding lobes. The terminal segments are triangular to lanceolate, hairless. The fertile fronds have a stem of more than 40 cm long, a limb of 24-50 cm long and 12-30 cm wide, 2-4-pinnate, with linear ultimate segments of more than 4 cm long for 1-2 mm wide, glabrous. The sporangia are located along the veins. They are protected by a marginal entire pseudo-indusium, membranous, formed by the reflected margin of the lamina, with 30-70 thickened cells (Fig. 10).
Ceratopteris thalictroides
usually grows in marshies and low flowing rivers.