Teratophyllum luzonicum

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Teratophyllum luzonicum

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present), Luzon present, Mindanao present, Palawan present
Malesia: Philippines (Luzon, Palawan, Mindanao).

Notes

No bathyphylls were collected in association with the original specimens. I subsequently described bathyphylls from Palawan, some of which were associated with sterile acrophylls. There are also transition bathyphylls which in 1937 I thought represented T. clemensiae, but now I think it more likely that they also belongto T. luzonicum. A final proof can only come from a collection of all stages from the same place. The fertile fronds of T. luzonicum and T. clemensiae are very different. There are also bathyphylls, without acrophylls, in a collection by Loher from Mt Mariveles; these agree well with Palawan specimens.

Citation

Copel. 1960: Fern Fl. Philip.: 270
Holttum 1937 – In: Gard. Bull. S. S.: 142