Tectaria crenata
Description
minute hairs variously present on lower surface of costae, upper surface of costae glabrous or nearly so;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical:, New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present) Carolines: present New Hebrides: present Pacific:, Fiji (Fiji present); Marianas present Solomons: present western Malesia: present
Malesia: Western Malesia, Philippines, New Guinea; Marianas, Carolines, Solomons, New Hebrides, Fiji.
Taxonomy
This species appears to intergrade with T. repanda in the Philippines. One specimen from the Malay Peninsula may represent a hybrid with T. angulata; it has some irregular small sori in addition to the two rows normal for T. crenata, also buds at the bases of some pinnae.
Citation
Copel., Fern Fl. Philipp. 1960: 314
Hook. - in Sp. Fil. 1862: 56
Holttum - in No vit. Bot. Delect. Seminum Horti Bot. Univ. Carol. Prag. 1969: 27
Morton - in Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 1974: 349
Mett., Fil. Hort. Bot. Lips. 1856: t. 21
St John - in Occas. Pap. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. 1954: f. 5, 6
C. Chr. - in Dansk Bot. Ark. 1937: 14
Alderw., Malayan Ferns. 1917: 196
Holttum - in Revis. Fl. Malaya. 1955: 510, 626