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12. Lindsaea doryphora K.U.Kramerwfo-0001256874

Blumea 15: 566. 1968; in Fl. Males. II. 1: 227. f. 35. 1971; Gard. Bull. Singapore 26: 38. 1972.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Synonyms & Citations :

Description : Rhizome terrestrial, short to rather long-creeping, scaly; scales bright brown, up to 1.5 mm long, stiff. Stipe stramineous, up to 30 cm or more long, usually longer than fronds. Lamina usually bipinnate, or rarely with simply pinnate fronds on the same plants, 15–35 cm long, up to 20 cm wide; pinnae up to 6 pairs, ascending, oblong-lanceolate, moderately acute at apex, very shortly stalked, 10–20 by 3–5 cm; pinnules 15–20 pairs, dimidiate and crescent-shaped, rounded at upper edge to apex, truncate at acroscopic base and dimidiate and curved at lower edge, 1.5–2.5 cm long, up to 1 cm broad; terminal pinnae like lateral ones, usually larger in size, chartaceous; veins all free, more or less visible on both surfaces. Sori continuous along margin of lobes on upper edge as well as at apex, a little inside the margin; indusia thin, not reaching the margin of lobes.

Thailand : PENINSULAR: Satun (Khlong Ton), Surat Thani (Ban Don), Nakhon Si Thammarat (Ronphibun), Narathiwat (Su-ngai Padi), Yala (Betong).

Distribution : Burma (Tenasserim), Malaya, Borneo (type), W Java, the Philippines.

Ecology : Terrestrial or on rocks in evergreen jungles at low to medium altitudes.

E-version notes : For more details see Ferns of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.