Elaphoglossum recommutatum
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Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), SW. Celebes present
Malesia: Sumatra, Java, SW. Celebes.
Notes
Kuhn cited Blume's specimen under Acrostichum commutatum Mett., but he evidently described the scales of A. commutatum from the Ceylon specimen of Thwaites, as longe acuminatis, adding parenthetically (apice denique delapsis) an apparent reference to the Blume specimen, the scales of which are mostly broken. But I judge from Blume's drawings of the scales, and from another Java specimen (Lobb s.n., K) that the scales are very different from those of the Thwaites specimen; see further comment under E. commutatum.
E. recommutatum appears to be the Malesian species nearest to E. conforme (Sw.) Moore, type species of the genus. It differs from typical E. conforme in the short-acuminate frond-apices and in lacking the resin-spots which occur abundantly on the lower surface of that species.
E. recommutatum appears to be the Malesian species nearest to E. conforme (Sw.) Moore, type species of the genus. It differs from typical E. conforme in the short-acuminate frond-apices and in lacking the resin-spots which occur abundantly on the lower surface of that species.