Asplenium aethiopicum Becherer 1935
Creators: name: Fischer, Eberhard
name: Lobin, Wolfram
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Aspleniaceae
Asplenium
Asplenium aethiopicum

description: Asplenium aethiopicum (Burm.f.) Becherer (1935: 22).   
 Trichomanes aethiopicum Burmann (1768: 28 bis)   
 Neotype (designated by Viane 2021: 29):— SOUTH AFRICA. Herbarium Delessert–Collection Burmann [248], G-PREL (G00818004 [digital image!]).   
 Specimens seen:— Northern Province: Prefecture Gisenyi (= Rubavu), near Rambura, 5 May, K.A. Nowak 1386 (BR0000015911117); Route de Rambura, env. du lac Kagogo, Préfecture Gisenyi (= Rubavu), 9 February 1972, G.Troupin 14377 (BR0000015911186); Route de Ruhengeri (= Musanze) à Kissegnie (= Rubavu), s.d., H.Scaetta 225 (BR0000015911179); Lac Bulera, riv. Kabaga, Préfect. Ruhengeri (= Musanze), 15 February 1972, P. Bamps 3141 (BR0000015911032); N Bulera-meer, gemeente Butaro de N.-oever, 17 February1972, P. Van der Veken 9409 (BR0000015911209); Lac Bulera (préf. Ruhengeri [= Musanze]), un peu avant la descente sur Butaro, 9 October 1974, P. Auquier 4484 (BR0000015911018); Prefecture Ruhengeri (= Musanze), Kadehero, 2 June 1982, K.A.Nowak 1624 (BR0000015911148); Volcano NP, selle entre le Karisimbi et le Visoke, préfecture Ruhengeri (= Musanze), 20 January 1972, P.Bamps 2963 (BR0000015911025); Kinigi, au bord d’un ruisseau ensoleillé, 25 June 1961, S.C.Antun-Gupffert 1037 (BR0000016322318); Rushashi, [Burubogo], Kigali, September 1933, A.Becquet 795 (BR0000015911070, BR0000015911063). Southern Province: Prefecture Gitarama (= Muhanga), near Gitarama (= Muhanga), Remera Mt., 5 May 1982, K.A.Nowak 1501 (BR0000015911124); Prefecture Butare (= Huye), near Isovu, 8 December 1981, K.A.Nowak 1717 (BR0000015911155); Astrida (= Huye), talus des routes, 11 March 1960, S.C.Antun-Gupffert 722 (BR0000016321984); Kigeme, Préfect.Gikongoro (= Nyamagabe), 5 March 1972, P.Bamps 3310 (BR0000015911049); Prefecture Gikongoro (= Nyamagabe), Mbuga, 9 December 1981, K.A.Nowak 1729 (BR0000015911162); Préfecture de Gikongoro (= Nyamagabe), Commune Kivu, Savane de Rubyiro, 13 August 1999, C.E.N.Ewango 2177 (BR0000009376366); Route Butare (= Huye) – Cyangugu (= Rusizi), km 61, Préfecture: Gikongoro (= Nyamagabe), 31 August 1974, P. Van der Veken 11059 (BR0000015911223, B 20 0085745). Kigali Province: Prefecture Kigali, Rwamanira on slope of Gikondo Mt., 12 June 1981, K.A.Nowak 1104 (BR0000015911100). Eastern Province: Rusumo, 23 June 1978, J.Raynal 20676 (BR0000009544390).   
 First recorded for Rwanda: — Brause & Hieronymus (1910: 19) as Asplenium furcatum Thunberg (1800: 172).   
 Habitat: —Epiphyte or terrestrial in montane forest,gallery forests, Hagenia - Hypericum forest and tree plantations, occ. (in Butare) on roadside trees, elev. 1750–3000 m.   
 Distribution in Rwanda:—Northern Province: Volcano NP. Western Province: Gishwati-Mukura NP, Nyungwe NP. Southern Province: Nyungwe National Park, Huye Arboretum, Butare. Kigali Province: Mt. Gikondo, Eastern Province: Rusumo.   
 General distribution: —Africa and Madagascar. Also in Saudi Arabia, India.
description: Published as part of Fischer, Eberhard & Lobin, Wolfram, 2023, Synoptic Revision of Aspleniaceae (Asplenium, Hymenasplenium) of Rwanda, pp. 1-65 in Phytotaxa 608 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.608.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8248950