Stenochlaena tenuifolia (Desv.) T.Moore

§ 2. CAPRARIA Presl.
This group was set apart by Presl as a section in 1851.* It
agrees with Eustenochlaena in venation and in the marginal spines
of the pinnae, but differs in the bipinnate sporophyl, a character
wholly insufficient to separate it as a genus. Fée founded the
genus Lomariobotrys on the same group in 1852.
A single species :
4. Stenochlaena tenuifolia (Desv.)
Lomaría tenuifolia Desv. Berl. Mag. 5 : 326. 1811. (Type from
Madagascar.)
Lomaría Meyeriana Kunze, Linnaea 10 : 5°9- 1836. (Type from
Natal ?, “ inter Omtendo et Omsamculo,” Drege.)
Stenochlaena Meyeriana Presl, Epim. Bot. 166. 1851.
Lomariobotrys Meyeriana Fée, Mém. Foug. 5 : 4-6. pi. 5A. 1852.
Lomariobotrys tenuifolia Fée, Mém. Foug. 5 : 46. 1852.
Acrostichum Meyerianum Hook. Garden Ferns pi. 16. 1862.—
Sp. Fil. 5: 250. 1864.
Acrostichum tenuifolium Baker, Syn. Fil. 412. 1868.
Icon. : Hooker, loc. cit. ; Fée, loe. cit.
Range: Africa from the Cape of Good Hope and Natal to
Nossibé, Madagascar, Mauritius, and the Comoro Islands.
There are specimens in the Kew herbarium in which there are
some simply pinnate sporophyls as well as the normally bipinnate
ones, said to have grown on the same plant.
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