Elaphoglossum callifolium
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Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Pacific: Samoa (Samoa present), S. Vietnam present
S. Vietnam, throughout Malesia; eastwards to Samoa.
Notes
There are a few quite small, but fertile, specimens from Java, Sumatra and Borneo which agree so closely with typical E. callifolium that I place them here. At least some such have been called E. laurifolium (the type of which, from Tristan d'Acunha, is very different in scales) and E. commutatum, which see for further comment. But I do not think that the specimen originally named E. conforme by Blume belongs here (see E. recommutatum). The Malay Peninsula specimens here described as E. malayense have also been called E. callifolium, but are very distinct in their scales; I have seen only one Peninsula specimen which seems to be true E. callifolium, with a frond 50 by 9 cm.
Citation
Bl. 1829: Fl. Jav. Fil: 22: t. 4
v.A.v.R. 1917: Handb.: 424
Backer & Posth. 1939: Varenfl. Java: 251
Christ 1890: Monogr. Elaph.: 34
Backer & Posth. 1939: Varenfl. Java: 251
v.A.v.R. 1917: Handb.: 426
Moore 1917: Handb.: 425
v.A.v.R. 1908: Handb.: 714
Holttum 1954 – In: Rev. Fl. Mal.: 459
C. Chr. 1934 – In: Gard. Bull. S. S.: 289
Fee 1845: Hist. Acrost.: 28
Copel. 1960: Fern Fl. Philip.: 277
Racib. 1898 – In: Fl. Btzg: 41