Tectaria repanda

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Tectaria repanda

Description

minute hairs variably present on the lower surface of costae;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Lesser Sunda Is. present; Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present), Flores present, Java (?) present, NE Celebes present, New Hebrides present, Pacific: Fiji (Fiji present); Marianas present, Rotuma Is present, Solomons present, Sumbawa present
Malesia: Java (?), Lesser Sunda Islands (Flores, Sumbawa), Philippines, NE Celebes, Moluccas, New Guinea; Marianas, Solomons, New Hebrides, Rotuma Is., probably Fiji.

Taxonomy

Dr. B. Zimmer has kindly examined Willdenow's type at Berlin and confirms that the indusia are peltate.

Cytology

Plants in New Guinea diploid (T. G. Walker, in litt.).

Citation

Morton 1974 – In: Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb.: 349
Mett. 1858: Farngatt. IV: 126