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20. Thelypteris repanda (Fée) Tagawa & K.Iwats.wfo-0000153558

Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 26: 170. 1975.— Goniopteris repanda Fée, Gen. Fil. : 251. 1852.— Pronephrium repandum (Fée) Holttum, Blumea 20: 108. 1972; in Fl. Males., Ser. II, Pterid. 1: 533. f. 1 n, 16 i–j. 1981.— Cyclosorus repandus (Fée) B.K.Nayar & S.Kaur, Companion Handb. Ferns Brit. India: 66. 1974.


Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.



Synonyms & Citations :

Phegopteris urophylla Mett., Pheg. Aspid.: 26. 1858, excl. syn. and var.— Nephrodium urophyllum (Mett.) Keyserl., Polyp. Herb. Bunge: 49. 1873; Bedd., Handb. Ferns Brit. India: 274. f. 140. 1883; Suppl. Ferns Brit. Ind.: 72. 1892.— Cyclosorus urophyllus (Mett.) Tardieu ex Tardieu & C.Chr., Notul. Syst. (Paris) 7: 77. 1938; in Fl. Indo-Chine 7(2): 391. 1941.— Abacopteris urophylla (Mett.) Ching, Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol. 8: 251. 1938; Holttum, Rev. Fl. Malaya 2: 296. f. 172. 1955; Dansk Bot. Ark. 20: 24. 1961.— Thelypteris urophylla (Mett.) K.Iwats. In Tagawa & K.Iwats., S.E. Asian Stud. 3(3): 81. 1965; 5: 71. 1967; Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 23: 54. 1968.
Polypodium urophyllum Wall. ex Hook., Sp. Fil. 5: 9. 1863.


Description : Rhizome creeping, about 1 cm diam.; scales narrow, up to 15 by 1.2 mm, dark brown to blackish, hairy at margin as well as on dorsal surface. Stipe up to 80 cm long, brownish with dark scaly base. Lamina oblong to obovate, 40–70 by about 50 cm; lateral pinnae about 5 pairs, basal pinnae sometimes reduced, lower ones shortly stalked, oblong-lanceolate, cuspidate at apex, cuneate at base, up to 30 by 5.5 cm, irregularly undulate at margin; terminal pinna longer, broader; papyraceous, firm, yellowish-green to green, verrucose; venation meniscioid. Sori in two medial to subcostular rows, exindusiate; sporangia with several setose hairs.


Thailand : SOUTH-WESTERN: Kanchanaburi (Wangka); PENINSULAR: Chumphon (Khao Tong), Surat Thani ( Ban Don), Phuket, Nakhon Si Thammarat (Khao Luang, Thung Song), Trang (Khao Chong), Satun, Yala (Bannang Sata, Bo Hin).


Distribution : Burma (Moulmein), N Vietnam, Malaya (type), Sumatra, Borneo (var. nitida), W Java, Celebes (var. nitida), the Philippines (var. nitida).


Ecology : On humus-rich mountain slopes in dense evergreen forests at low to medium altitudes.


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


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