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1. Teratophyllum aculeatum (Blume) Mett. ex Kuhnwfo-0001257046

Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 4: 296. 1869; Holttum, Rev. Fl. Malaya 2: 473. f. 276 a–h. 1955; in Fl. Males. Ser. II. 1: 269. f. 3, 4a–h, 1978; Tagawa & K.Iwats., S.E. Asian Stud. 5: 92. 1967.— Lomaria aculeata Blume, Enum. Pl. Javae: 205. 1828.— Stenochlaena aculeata (Blume) Kunze, Bot. Zeitung 6: 142. 1848; C.Chr., Bot. Tidsskr. 32: 346. 1916.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Synonyms & Citations :

Description : Rhizome very slender, creeping or climbing. Bathyphylls leafy on lower portion of rachis, gradually more pinnate upwards, up to 8 by 2 cm, oblong with acute apex; pinnae up to 1.5 cm broad, entire or rarely forked. Sterile acrophyll up to 60 by 20 cm, oblong-lanceolate; pinnae about 15 pairs and a single terminal one, lanceolate, acuminate at apex, rounded to truncate at base, shortly stalked or sessile, up to 12 by 2.5 cm; papyraceous. Fertile frond pinnate; pinnae linear, more than 20 cm long, up to 2 mm broad; sporangia dispersed on lower surface of pinna except on midrib.

Thailand : SOUTH-EASTERN: Chanthaburi (Khao Soi Dao), Trat (Ko Chang); PENINSULAR: Ranong (Muang Laen), Surat Thani (Bang Bao, Ban Don, Khao Sok), Phangnga (Nai Chong), Nakhon Si Thammarat (Khao Luang), Pattani (Bacho), Narathiwat (Waeng).

Distribution : Burma, Malaya, Sumatra to the Philippines (type from Java) and New Guinea.

Ecology : On mountain slopes in dense evergreen forests at low or medium altitudes.

Notes: All the Thai collections are of bathyphylls and the description of acrophylls in drawn from Malayan plants.

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