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15. Lindsaea lucida Blumewfo-0001120196

Enum. Pl. Javae.: 216. 1828; Tardieu & C.Chr. in Fl. Indo-Chine 7(2): 122. 1939; Holttum, Rev. Fl. Malaya 2: 328. f. 187. 1955; Dansk Bot. Ark. 20: 24. 1961; Ching, Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 2: 263. 1959; Tagawa & K.Iwats., S.E. Asian Stud. 5: 74. 1967; Kramer in Fl. Males. II. 1: 233. 1971; Gard. Bull. Singapore 26: 44. 1972.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Description : Rhizome very short-creeping, about 1.5 mm diam., bearing stipes close together, scaly near apex, scales very narrow, up to 3 mm long, 0.2 mm broad, brown, shining. Stipe brown to castaneous and scaly at base, stramineous or pale-green and quadrangula in section upwards, 2–8 cm long. Lamina simply pinnate, linear, up to 30 by 2.8 cm; rachis like the upper part of stipes; pinnae close, sessile; middle ones larger, patent, oblong to oblong-subdeltoid, 1.7 by 0.7 cm, the lower edge straight or curved, inner edge close to rachis, forming cuneate base with lower edge, rounded to moderately acute at apex; upper pinnae gradually becoming smaller, ascending, acute at apex, forming no terminal pinnae, lower ones more remote, smaller, patent or deflexed, herbaceous; veins distinct on both surfaces, free, except those joined by sori. Indusia narrow, thin, nearly reaching the margin of pinnae.

Thailand : EASTERN: Buri Ram (Khao Krap); CENTRAL: Nakhon Nayok (Khao Yai); SOUTH-EASTERN: Chanthaburi (Khao Kluea, Makham, Khao Sabap), Trat (Ko Chang, Ko Kut); PENINSULAR: Ranong (Kamphuan), Phuket (Ko Lanta Yai) Satun (Khuan Kalong), Narathiwat (Waeng), Yala (Ban Chana, Bacho).

Distribution : India, Burma, Indochina, S China, Malaya, Sumatra to the Moluccas (type from Java).

Ecology : On rather dry or sandy ground near streams in shade at low or medium altitudes.

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