Hymenophyllaceae

Hymenophyllum kuhnii C. Chr.

Also mentioned in the literature as x. (?)

Geographic distribution (?)

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Confirmed occurrences (?): Angola, Cameroon, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe

Ecology

Found in the biomes (?): TM, TS, FS, MG, DX

Found in the Köppen-Geiger climatic zones (?): Cwa, Cfb, Cwb, BSh, As, Am, Aw, Af, Cfa, Csb, ET

Distribution across environmental gradients (?):

Elevation

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BIO1 (annual mean temperature)

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BIO4 (temperature seasonality)

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BIO12 (annual precipitation)

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BIO15 (precipitation seasonality)

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Conservation

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025-2 (?): Not assessed

Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1 (?): Not assessed

Data collection gaps

Botanical countries lacking appropriate occurrence records (?): Angola, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Sierra Leone

References

Hemp, A. 2002. Ecology of the pteridophytes on the southern slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. I. Altitudinal distribution. Plant Ecology. 159(2):211–239. doi.org/10.1023/A:1015569125417.

Useful links

Source distribution information: powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17123620-1

Source occurrence data: doi.org/10.15468/dl.f529nm

Source IUCN conservation status: x