Elaphoglossum amblyphyllum
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Distribution
Ambon present, Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Maluku (Maluku present); Sumatera (Sumatera present)
Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo, Moluccas (Ambon).
Notes
The type is the specimen illustrated by Blume as Acrostichum decurrens. As shown by Bell (l.c. 1960) it is certainly different from the type of A. decurrens Desv. The latter is a poor specimen, and I have been unable to identify any Malesian species with it. The specimen named Acrostichum obtusifolium Willd. by Blume is certainly not conspecific with Willdenow's type, which is probably a young plant of Polypodium scolopendria Burm. f. (photograph seen, showing venation). The name Elaphoglossum obtusifolium was published by Brackenridge with a description of a Fiji specimen, and citation of Acrostichum obtusifolium Bl. (non Willd.) as a synonym. Raciborski's description of Acrostichum decurrens was based on a specimen from Ambon (leg. Teysmann) which I have seen.