Schizaea

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett. 1969. The botany of the Guayana Highland-part VIII. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 18: 1-290.

  • Family

    Schizaeaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Schizaea

  • Description

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    Genus Description - Rhizomes erect or ascending, occasionally branched, hairy, the hairs moniliform, concolorous, stiff, pale brown to reddish-brown; stipes sulcate, pale green except brown at base, hairy like the rhizomes at base; laminae dichotomously divided (at least at the apex in nearly entire fronds) to flabellate, fusiform-spathulate or nearly linear to triangular or broadly obdeltoid; ultimate segments plane, thickened at the entire margin, linear and unicostate to fusiform or flabelliform, terminated by a pinnatifid, more or less oblong, laxly hairy sorophore; veins free; sori dorsal, confluent, the sporangia crowded in two rows, one on each side of the segment vein; indusia the slightly modified, reflexed sorophore segment margin.

    Distribution and Ecology - About 20 species, mostly in the temperate and tropical Pacific Islands and South America, with some species in Australia, Africa, Central America, and the Antilles.

  • Discussion

    Lophidium L. C. Rich., Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris 1: 114. 1792, nom rej. Type. L. latifolium L. C. Rich. [= Schizaea elegans (Vahl) Swartz].

    Ripidium Bernh., Jour. Bot. Schrad. 1800(2): 127, t. 2, f. 3. 1801. Type. R. dichotomum Bernh. [= Acrostichum dichotomum L. sensu Forst.).

    Lectotype. Acrostichum dichotomum L. [= Schizaea dichotoma (L.) J. E. Smith].