Lomariopsis lineata
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Distribution
Asia-Tropical, E. New Guinea absent, S. Thailand present, S. Vietnam present, Tenasserim present
Tenasserim, S. Thailand, S. Vietnam; throughout Malesia except E. New Guinea.
Notes
Fee's figures of L. smithii (based on Cuming 143, Luzon) show both fertile and sterile pinnae with very long stalks, but the specimen of this collection at Kew has stalks 3-5 mm long. In Malaya I have found plants growing near together, one with typically broad sterile pinnae, the other with pinnae only half as wide. The type specimen of L. papyracea has a normal sterile frond, with a contorted and incomplete fertile one having an apical lamina 16 mm wide; it seems to me improbable that this is a normal frond of a distinct species.
Specimens from Taiwan and Hainan which have been named L. cochinchinensis should perhaps be ranked as a distinct species; they are near L. kingii, having sterile pinnae P/2 cm wide, not abruptly contracted towards apex, and very narrow fertile pinnae.
A specimen consisting entirely of simple fronds, one of them fertile, was collected by M. G. Price (463) growing on stones in a seasonally dry stream- bed in a semi-exposed position, in Camarines Norte Province, southern Luzon. This is the only example of a simple fertile frond of this species seen by me; failure to produce pinnate fronds was doubtless a reaction to the exposed habitat.
Specimens from Taiwan and Hainan which have been named L. cochinchinensis should perhaps be ranked as a distinct species; they are near L. kingii, having sterile pinnae P/2 cm wide, not abruptly contracted towards apex, and very narrow fertile pinnae.
A specimen consisting entirely of simple fronds, one of them fertile, was collected by M. G. Price (463) growing on stones in a seasonally dry stream- bed in a semi-exposed position, in Camarines Norte Province, southern Luzon. This is the only example of a simple fertile frond of this species seen by me; failure to produce pinnate fronds was doubtless a reaction to the exposed habitat.
Citation
[non (L.) J. Sm.] Bedd. 1883: Handb.: 423
Copel. 1960: Fern Fl. Philip.: 268
Holttum 1932 – In: Gard. Bull. S. S.: 266
Holttum 1932 – In: Gard. Bull. S. S.: 269
Holttum 1954: p. 476. – In: Rev. Fl. Mal.: f. 279
Copel. 1949 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: 400
Tard.-Bl. & C. Chr. 1939 – In: Fl. Gen. I.-C.: 428
v.A.v.R. 1908: Handb.: 720
v.A.v.R. 1917: Handb.: 429
Copel. 1960: Fern Fl. Philip.: 268