e-Flora of Thailand

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Arthropteris palisotii (Desv.) Alstonwfo-0001107754

Bol. Soc. Brot. II. 30: 6. 1956; Holttum, Blumea 14: 226. 1966; Rev. Fl. Malaya ed. 2. 2: 634. 1968.— Aspidium palisotii Desv., Ges. Naturf. Berl. Mag. 5: 320. 1811. Fig. 13. 3.


Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.



Synonyms & Citations :

Arthropteris obliterata auct. non (R.Br.) J.Sm.: E.Smith, J. Siam Soc., Nat. Hist. Suppl. 8: 6. 1929; Tardieu & C.Chr. in Fl. Indo-Chine 7(2): 287. f. 30, 3–4. 1940; Ching, Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 2: 318. pl. 28. f. 9–11. 1959.
Aspidium ramosum Beauv., Fl. Oware 2: 54. t. 91. 1811.— Nephrolepis ramosa (Beauv.) T.Moore, Index. Filic.: 102. 1858; Bedd., Handb. Ferns Brit. India: 284. f. 145. 1883.


Description : Rhizome long-creeping, irregularly branching, about 1.5 mm diam., bearing distant fronds; scales small, reniform with tails, 2 by 0.7 mm, dark brown, appressed. Stipe on distinct phyllopode (a stipe base remaining as a scar after leaf-shedding) 2–3 mm high, 2–4 cm long, pubescent. Lamina linear-lanceolate, up to 40 by 7 cm, pinnate; middle pinnae larger, oblong, patent or ascending, round or moderately acute at apex, auricled at anterior and dimidiate at posterior bases, sessile, subentire or shallowly crenate at margin, up to 4 by 1 cm; rachis densely hairy; costa densely hairy above, sparsely beneath, texture softly papyraceous; veins more or less visible, forming acute angle with costa, forked. Sori in one row, submarginal or ⅓ way from margin of pinna to costa; indusia rotund-reniform smaller, usually shrink in matured sori.


Thailand : NORTHERN: Phrae (Mae Sai), Tak (Huai Krasa, Doi Musoe); SOUTH-EASTERN: Chanthaburi (Khao Soi Dao); PENINSULAR: Surat Thani (Ko Tao).


Distribution : Old World tropics throughout, Africa (type) to the Pacific.


Ecology : Epiphytic on tree-trunks or on rocks in semi-shaded places.


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


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