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Diplazium cordifolium Blume 1828

  • 1. Office of National Science Research, National Science Museum, Technopolis, Khlong 5, 39 Moo 3, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, 12120, Thailand. & Puttamon. p @ nsm. or. th; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0273 - 1889
  • 2. Missouri Botanical Garden, P. O. Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri 63166 - 0299, USA and Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. O. Box 416, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China & Libing. Zhang @ mobot. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4905 - 040 X
  • 3. Office of National Science Research, National Science Museum, Technopolis, Khlong 5, 39 Moo 3, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, 12120, Thailand. & Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand. & bthawees @ googlemail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0001 - 5864 - 7208
  • 4. Office of National Science Research, National Science Museum, Technopolis, Khlong 5, 39 Moo 3, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, 12120, Thailand. & Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand. & Office of National Science Research, National Science Museum, Technopolis, Khlong 5, 39 Moo 3, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, 12120, Thailand. & Rossarin. p @ chula. ac. th; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6798 - 7274 * Corresponding authors: Puttamon. p @ nsm. or. th; Libing. Zhang @ mobot. org & Office of National Science Research, National Science Museum, Technopolis, Khlong 5, 39 Moo 3, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, 12120, Thailand.

Description

4. Diplazium cordifolium Blume (1828: 190). Fig. 7.

Type: INDONESIA. Java, Kapala Tjibeureum, J. C. Van Hasselt s.n. (lectotype L0051534, designated by Hovenkamp 2019: 61).

Plants terrestrials. Stems erect, 1–2 cm diameter, apex covered with scales; scales 6–12 × 1–1.5 mm, narrowly lanceolate with long tail apex, margins thick, dark brown, margin entire. Fronds 65–70 cm, usually simple or sometime imparipinnate; petioles up to 40 cm, 3–5 cm diameter, dark green when living, stramineous to brown when dried, lower part black, grooved above. Laminae, simple laminae, 25–30 × 8–12 cm, cordate or narrowly cordate, apex acuminate, base cordate, margin subentire to undulate, glabrous, coriaceous, dark green; midrib distinctly raised beneath, glabrous; veins branching a few times near midrib and uniting to form irregularly-anastomosing vein near margin; gemmae usually present at base of lamina between stipe and midrib; imparipinnate lamina, 25–30 × 14–20 cm, ovate in outline, terminal pinna present, usually bigger than lateral ones, 12–15 × 4–5 cm, ovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base obtuse, margin entire to subentire; lateral pinnae 3–4 pairs, alternate, 10–15 × 3–5 cm, becoming smaller upward, lower pinnae largest, sessile, bearing gemmae at junction between rachis and costa, ovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base cordate to obtuse, margin subentire, glabrous, coriaceous, dark green; vein anastomosing. Sori up to 4 cm, elongate along anastomosing veinlets, on both side of each veinlet, indusiate; indusia thin but persistent; spore monolete, 47.5–50 × 35–45 µm, bilateral, concavo-convex to plano-convex, perispore present; ornamentation: prominent wing folds.

Thailand: —PENINSULAR: Chumphon (Lang Suan), Nakhon Si Thammarat (Khao Luang, Khao Nan), Trang (Khao Chong, Khao Pad Pha), Narathiwat (Ban Phu Klong Thong, Waeng), Pattani, Songkhla, Yala (Ban Chana).

Distribution: — Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Ecology: —On moist sandy mountain slopes in dense gloomy forests at 800–1,100 elev., locally fairly abundant.

Specimens Examined:— THAILAND. Chumphon, Lang Suan, A.F. G.Kerr 12008 (BK,BM); Trang, C.Apasutaya 125 (BCU); Nakhon Si Thammarat, Khao Luang, C. Thorat 135 (BCU); Nakhon Si Thammarat, Khao Luang, C.F. van Beusekom & C. Phengklai 944 (L, PE); Nakhon Si Thammarat, Khao Luang, E. Hennipman 3815 (BKF, BM, L); Nakhon Si Thammarat, Khao Luang, K. Larsen et al. 45926 (L, QBG); Trang, Khao Chong, M. Tagawa, K. Iwatsuki & N. Fukuoka T4631 (L); Nakhon Si Thammarat, Khao Luang, M. Tagawa, K. Iwatsuki & N. Fukuoka T4833 (L); Trang, Khao Chong, M. Tagawa, K. Iwatsuki & N. Fukuoka T6816 (L); Songkhla, Ton Nga Chang waterfalls, N. Putthisawong 36 (PSU); Nakhorn Si Thammarat, Khao Nan, P. Pongkai 34 (BCU); ibid., P. Pongkai 37 (BCU); ibid., P. Pongkai 42 (BCU); Nakhon Si Thammarat, Khao Luang, P. Pongkai 60 (BCU); ibid., P. Pongkai 121 (BCU); Nakhon Si Thammarat, Khao Luang, P. Suksathan 1067 (QBG); Trang, Khao Pad Pha, R. geesink, T. Haltink & C.C. Charaenpol 7286 (L); Nakhon Si Thammarat, Khao Luang, S. Sutisorn 824 (BK); Narathiwat, Ban Phu Klong Thong, T. Boonkerd 1516 (BCU); Nakhon Si Thammarat, Khao Luang, T. Boonkerd s.n. (BCU); Nakhorn Si Thammarat, Khao Nan, T. Boonkerd, Y. Sirijamorn & C. Sanguansab 8 (BCU); ibid., T. Boonkerd, Y. Sirijamorn & C. Sanguansab 240 (BCU); ibid., T. Boonkerd, Y. Sirijamorn & C. Sanguansab 491 (BCU). INDONESIA. Seram Manusela National Park, B.S. Parris 11121 (K); Java, Blume s.n. (L); Sulawesi, E. Hennipman 5195 (K); Kalimantan, K. Iwatski, M. Kato, G. Murata & Y.P. Mogea B2171 (K); Seram Manusela National Park, M. Kato, K. Ueda & U.W. Mahjar C1220 (K); Seram Manusela National Park, M. Kato, K. Ueda & Z. Fanani C11676 (K); Borneo, R.E. Holttum 25139 (PE); ibid., R.E. Holttum 25140 (PE); Pahang, R.E. Holttum 31219 (PE); Jaya, R.J. Johns 8189 (K). MALAYSIA. Pahang, A.G. Piggott 2994 (K); Pahang, A.G. Piggott 3103 (K); Kinabalu, B.S. Parris & J.P. Croxal 9131 (K); Sarawak, B.S. Parris 6470 (K); Sarawak, B.S. Parris 6629 (K); Perak, C.G. Matthew s.n. (K); Penang, C.G. Matthew s.n. (K); Sabah, G. Stort & P. van Amdjah 359 (K); Perak, J. Sinclair & Kiah 38745 (K); Sabah, P.S. Shim San75407 (K); Sabah, Pearce 3 (K); no locality, R. Schlechter 17821 (PE); Penang, W. Norris 19 (K); Penang, W.B. Lorrain s.n. (K). PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Morobe, A. Kairo 26 (K); Torricelli Mts., F.R.R. Schlechter 14404 (K); Kaiser-Wilhelmsland Ibo Mountains, F.R.R. Schlechter 17821 (K); Madang, H.J. Gay & F.J. Parrott 671 (K); Morobe, J. Manseima 10 (K); Manus Island, M.J.S. Sands G.A. Pattison & J.J. Wood 2923 (K); Morobe, T. Nakaike 54 (K); Morobe, W. Takeuchi 7396 (K); East Sepik Province, W. Takeuchi et al. 17862 (K). PHILIPPINES. Mindoro Subaan River, Ridsdale, Coode & Reynoso 5585 (K).

Note: —This species has two forms of fronds but pinnate frond is rarely found.

Notes

Published as part of Pongkai, Puttamon, Zhang, Li-Bing, Boonkerd, Thaweesakdi & Pollawatn, Rossarin, 2023, Revision of the fern genus Diplazium (Polypodiales: Athyriaceae) in Thailand, pp. 1-69 in Phytotaxa 631 (1) on pages 14-17, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.631.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10422862

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
J
Family
Athyriaceae
Genus
Diplazium
Kingdom
Plantae
Material sample ID
L0051534
Order
Polypodiales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Blume
Species
cordifolium
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Diplazium cordifolium Blume, 1828 sec. Pongkai, Zhang, Boonkerd & Pollawatn, 2023

References

  • Blume, C. L. (1828) Enumertio Plantarum Javae. Apud J. W. van Leeuwen, Lugduni Batavorum, 274 pp.
  • Hovenkamp, P. (2019) Flora of Singapores, 13. New names ans lectotypifications in Athyriaceae and Polypodiaceae. Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 71 (1): 61 - 67.