Cheilanthes multifida

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Polypodiales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Tracheophyta Divisio: Pteridophyta Classis: Polypodiopsida Ordo: Polypodiales

Cheilanthes multifida (Sw.) Sw., Syn. Fil.: 129, 334 (1806).

Basionym
- Adiantum multifidum Sw., J. Bot. [Schrader] 1800(2): 85 (1801).
  - Type: ‘Promont. bonae spei’, C.P. Thunberg s.n. (Lectotype, designated by Anthony 1984: 183: [[S}}).
Homotypic
- Hemionitis multifida (Sw.) Christenh., Global Fl. 4: 18 (2018).

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Africa
- Regional: West-Central Tropical Africa
  - Burundi, Zaïre.
- Regional: Northeast Tropical Africa
  - Ethiopia, Sudan.
- Regional: East Tropical Africa
  - Kenya, Tanzania.
- Regional: South Tropical Africa
  - Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
- Regional: Southern Africa
  - Cape Provinces (Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Western Cape), Lesotho, Namibia, KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, Northern Provinces (Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Northern Province, North-West Province).
- Regional: Middle Atlantic Ocean
  - St. Helena.
- Regional: Western Indian Ocean
  - Madagascar.

Swartz, O.P. 1806. Synopsis Filicum earum Genera et species. 445 pp. Kiliae. BHL Reference page.

Roux, J.P. 2009. Synopsis of the Lycopodiophyta and Pteridophyta of Africa, Madagascar and neighbouring islands. Strelitzia 23: 1–296. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. ISBN 978-1-919976-48-8. ARK: /t0ps2bc93 PDF Reference page.

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