Drynaria quercifolia

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Distribution

Asia-Tropical, Southeast Asia to Australia present

Southeast Asia to Australia. Throughout Malesia.

Anatomy

Anatomy:

Uses

Grown as ornamental. Medicine for stomach ache (Philippines); ‘obat ka-pala sakit’, marrow from the rhizome mixed with santen is applied to the head against headache (Sumba: Kanangan).

Notes

2The scales vary from brown, concolorous to blackish, with a more or less flabelloid margin near the base, and a more or less distinct midrib running through the acumen. This latter type is most frequent in plants from West Malesia (Sumatra, Java). In all cases the margin is strongly dentate, with long, straight teeth. 1Can be confused with D. sparsisora, which is usually easily distinguished by the appressed scales with squarrose, narrow acumen and the more irregularly scattered sori. Specimens without rhizome, however, cannot always be identified with certainty.

Citation

Alderw. 1917: Malayan Ferns: 415

J. Sm. 1883: Handb. Ferns Brit. India: 343: f. 191

Sledge 1960 – In: Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist) Bot.: 144

Cesati 1876 – In: Atti Accad. Sci. Fis.: 28

Hook. & Bauer 1842: Gen. Fil.: t. 21

Tardieu & C. Chr. 1941 – In: Fl. Indo-Chine: 518

Copel. 1905: Polypod. Philipp.: 135

Holttum 1968: Nov. Bot. Inst. Bot. Univ. Car. Prag.: 21

Fée 1850–1852: Gen. Filic.: 271

Zamora & Co 1986 – In: Guide Philipp. Flora & Fauna: 28

Holttum 1954 – In: Revis. Fl. Malaya: 182

Holttum 1968: Nov. Bot. Inst. Bot. Univ. Car. Prag.: 19

Blume 1828: Enum. Pl. Javae: 135

J. Sm. 1875: Hist. Fil.: 108

Becc. 1886 – In: Malesia: 25

Copel. 1911 – In: Philipp. J. Sc. Bot.: 91

Becc. 1884 – In: Malesia: 246

Mett. 1856: Fil. Hort. Bot. Lips: 37: t. 20, f. 9

Baker 1868 – In: Hook. & Baker, Syn. Fil.: 367

L. 1829: Fl. Javae Fil: 153: (58)

J. Sm. 1876: Suppl. Ferns S. Ind. & Brit. India: 24

Bedd. 1863: Ferns S. India: 63: pl. 187

Copel. 1960: Fern Fl. Philipp.: 496

Copel. 1947: Gen. Fil.: 204

Copel. 1929 – In: Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot.: 119

Racib. 1898: Pterid. Buitenzorg: 118

Hook. 1864 – In: Sp. Fil.: 96

Roos 1985: Drynarioideae: 258

Brause 1920 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 208

Alderw. 1908: Malayan Ferns: 698