Pyrrosia lanceolata

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Pyrrosia lanceolata

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Description

Stellate hairs monomorphic, a thin to dense mat, the straight rays boat-shaped to nearly acicular.

Distribution

Africa present, Asia-Tropical, Southeast Asia to the Pacific present
Africa; Southeast Asia to the Pacific. Throughout Malesia.

Anatomy

Anatomy:

Taxonomy

Infraspecific variation. Several species are here included in P. lanceolata which have widely been regarded as separate. In the Malesian area the most common and best recognisable forms have been named as:
  • ‘adnascens’: Small plants, rather thick-leathery, with distinctly dimorphic fronds, the sterile ones often with rounded apex; rhizome scales short, mostly appressed. Throughout Malesia.
  • ‘varia’: Larger plants, thin-leathery, with wider, less distinctly dimorphic fronds, the sterile ones often with acute apex; rhizome scales large, spreading. Throughout Malesia. Although the original name is based on material that clearly represents the previous form, the most widely used interpretation is based on Blume’s plate (1829: plate 21), which clearly represents this form.
  • ‘dimorpha’: Relatively large plants, distinctly dimorphic, the sterile fronds often with rounded apex; rhizome scales often with a long entire filiform apex. Confined to New Guinea and surrounding islands.
  • ‘stellata’: Small plants, similar to ‘adnascens’, but with a very dense, conspicuously whitish indument. Restricted to New Guinea and surrounding islands; similar forms not always distinct from ‘adnascens’ sporadically occur in other areas.

Uses

Crushed and mixed with jintan itam and onion, then applied externally to relieve headache (Malaya); used to cure dysentery (Malaya).

Citation

C. Presl 1836: Tent. Pterid.: 201
Baker 1891 – In: Ann. Bot. (London): 472
C. Presl 1836: Tent. Pterid.: 201
Desv. 1827 – In: Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris: 224
Alderw. 1917: Malayan Ferns: 411
Kaulf. 1851: Epim. Bot.: 127
Ching 1935 – In: Bull. Chin. Bot. Soc.: 70
Burm. f. 1768: Fl. Ind.: 228
Farwell 1930 – In: Amer. Midl. Nat.: 245
Blume 1828: Enum. Pl. Javae: 106
Alderw. 1908: Malayan Ferns: 681
Blume 1851: Epim. Bot.: 126
C. Presl 1836: Tent. Pterid.: 202
Backer & Posth. 1939: Varenfl. Java: 239: f. 57
Hoshiz. 1981: p. 76. – In: Baileya: f. 13
Racib. 1898: Pterid. Buitenzorg: 98
Alderw. 1908: Malayan Ferns: 680
Blume 1851: Epim. Bot.: 126
Kaulf. 1829: Fl. Javae Fil: 56: pl. 22
Blume 1829: Fl. Javae Fil: 52: pl. 20
Copel. 1960: Fern Fl. Philipp.: 471
Holttum 1955: p. 146. – In: Revis. Fl. Malaya: f. 61
Alderw. 1917: Malayan Ferns: 412
Backer & Posth. 1939: Varenfl. Java: 238
Ching 1935 – In: Bull. Chin. Bot. Soc.: 46
Hoshiz. 1981: p. 57. – In: Baileya: f. 2
Wagner 1952 – In: Amer. J. Bot.: 587
Blume 1828: Enum. Pl. Javae: 275
Ching 1935 – In: Bull. Chin. Bot. Soc.: 70
Kaulf. 1829: Fl. Javae Fil.: 53
Copel. 1960: Fern Fl. Philipp.: 471
Giesenh. 1901: Niphobolus: 151, 198, 208
Kaulf. 1829: Fl. Javae Fil: 54: pl. 21
C. Chr. & Holttum 1934 – In: Gard. Bull. Str. Settlem.: 313
C. Chr. 1906: Index Filic.: 201
Hovenkamp 1986 – In: Leiden Bot. Ser.: 191
Morton 1946 – In: J. Wash. Acad. Sc.: 168
Blume 1829: Fl. Javae Fil: 50: pl. 19
Giesenh. 1901: Niphobolus: 196, 206, 209: f. 18
Blume 1828: Enum. Pl. Javae: 106
Racib. 1898: Pterid. Buitenzorg: 100
Baker 1867: Syn. Fil.: 349
Alderw. 1908: Malayan Ferns: 682
Holttum 1955: p. 144. – In: Revis. Fl. Malaya: f. 60
C. Presl 1836: Tent. Pterid.: 201
Zamora & Co 1986 – In: Guide Philipp. Flora & Fauna: 31
L. 1763 – In: Sp. Pl., ed: 1523
Willd. 1810 – In: Sp. Pl.: 145
Desv. 1827 – In: Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris: 224