Lomariopsis spectabilis
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Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. (Bali present); Maluku (Maluku present), Celebes? present, Central & South Sumatra present, Philippines? present
Malesia: Central & South Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo, Moluccas; Celebes?; Philippines?.
Notes
Acrostichum smithii Racib. was des- cribed from a plant brought from the Moluccas (exaet locality unrecorded) by J. J. Smith. The fronds of the type had few pinnae, sterile ones to 3 cm wide; a later-collected frond, apparently from the same plant, has 6 pairs of pinnae less than 2 cm wide. No other collections are known from the Moluccas.
Specimens from the Philippines formerly referred to this species all appear to have narrower fertile pinnae and I believe they must be regarded as L. kingii. Bornean specimens referred here are few and have broad fertile pinnae; their sterile pinnae are thinner and somewhat broader than those of specimens from Java but are narrowly acuminate, not abruptly narrowed near apex as in L. lineata. The spores of Kinabalu specimens are somewhat intermediate between those of L. lineata and of typical L. spectabilis in form of perispore; but those of Endert 3785 from 1200 m in W. Kutai are very like spores of Java specimens.
Specimens from the Philippines formerly referred to this species all appear to have narrower fertile pinnae and I believe they must be regarded as L. kingii. Bornean specimens referred here are few and have broad fertile pinnae; their sterile pinnae are thinner and somewhat broader than those of specimens from Java but are narrowly acuminate, not abruptly narrowed near apex as in L. lineata. The spores of Kinabalu specimens are somewhat intermediate between those of L. lineata and of typical L. spectabilis in form of perispore; but those of Endert 3785 from 1200 m in W. Kutai are very like spores of Java specimens.