Teratophyllum articulatum
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Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present), Ceram present, Halmahera present, Leyte present, Luzon present, Mindanao present, SW. & NE. present, Samar present, Solomon Islands present
Malesia: Celebes (SW. & NE.), Moluccas (Ceram, Halmahera), Philippines (Luzon, Leyte, Samar, Mindanao), New Guinea; Solomon Islands.
Notes
This species is distinguished from T. wilkesianum (New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa, Tahiti) by the auricled acroscopic base of its pinnules, and by the complete absence of simply pinnate acrophylls; also apparently by the brown bullate scales of the lower surface of pinnules.
Two Sarasin specimens from N. Celebes match T. wilkesianum from New Caledonia very closely in shape of leaflets, but they have the scales charac- teristic of T. articulatum. It seems possible that these specimens represent a distinct local form of the species. Copeland (1960: 273) refers to a specimen of his own from Mindanao which resembles T. wilkesianum; this has rather small fronds with deeply incised small leaflets which are very asymmetric at the base and seem to me much less like T. wilkesianum than the Celebes specimens.
Two Sarasin specimens from N. Celebes match T. wilkesianum from New Caledonia very closely in shape of leaflets, but they have the scales charac- teristic of T. articulatum. It seems possible that these specimens represent a distinct local form of the species. Copeland (1960: 273) refers to a specimen of his own from Mindanao which resembles T. wilkesianum; this has rather small fronds with deeply incised small leaflets which are very asymmetric at the base and seem to me much less like T. wilkesianum than the Celebes specimens.
Citation
v.A.v.R. 1917: Handb.: 437
Holttum 1966 – In: Blumea: 217
Copel. 1947: Gen. Fil.: 118
J. Sm. 1949 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: 401
Copel. 1905: Polypod. Philip.: 40
Christ 1897: Farnkr. Erde: 42: f. 101
Diels 1899 – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam. 1: 198
J. Sm. 1960: Fern Fl. Philip.: 272
Holttum 1938 – In: Gard. Bull. S. S.: 356
v.A.v.R. 1917: Handb.: 438