African juniper (Agarista salicifolia)
Description
Terrestrial ferns. Rhizomes usually erect or suberect (NZ), rarely long-creeping (not NZ), scaly. Rhizome scales ovate, thin, appressed, often with marginal hairs (not NZ) or entire (NZ). Fronds monomorphic. Stipes scaly, sometimes spiny (not NZ). Laminae 1-pinnate to 2-pinnate-pinnatifid, herbaceous, several pairs of lower pinnae gradually or abruptly reduced in size; basal pinnae auricled acroscopically; aerophores at base of pinnae white and swollen in young living fronds; abaxial surface of laminae bearing a few ovate scales (NZ) or lacking scales (not NZ); abaxial surface bearing short acicular hairs, and sometimes a few capitate or glandular hairs, or glabrous; sessile spherical glands absent. One or more basal veins from adjacent pinna lobes uniting below the sinus (NZ) or rarely veins free (not NZ). Sori round, indusiate (not NZ) or exindusiate (NZ); paraphyses absent. Indusia (when present) reniform, glabrous or bearing acicular hairs. Sporangia usually bearing short capitate hairs near the annulus, and a multicellular hair with a swollen apical cell on the stalk (not NZ) or both such hairs absent (NZ). Spores monolete, with many wings.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Ericales
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Family: Ericaceae
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Genus: Agarista
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