Leucostegia pallida (Mettenius, 1869) Copeland, 1927
Description
Rhizome without the scales 2-15 mm in diametre. Scales evenly narrowed towards the apex. Stipes pale or dark brown, 8-115 cm long. Lamina tripinnate or quadripinnate (or bipinnate in small plants) towards base and in the middle part (L. pallida Habitus), deltoid and broadest towards base, glabrous (sometimes minute hairs present), 6-120 cm long (or more). Longest petiolules 8-40 mm long. Ultimate leaflets rhomboid, only shallowly lobed. Ultimate segments (lobes) 0.5-3 mm long. Indusium attached at the base and part of the sides, oblong, 1.2-1.5 mm long by 1 mm broad (L. pallida Indusia).
Distribution
Continental Asia: Burma (Chin Hills 1 coll.).
Malesia: Malay Peninsula (Perak, Maxwell's Hill and Larut 5 coll.); Sumatra (in the mountains of E. Coast and W. Coast 5 coll.); Borneo (Sarawak 5 coll., Kalimantan Timur 7 coll.); Philippines (Luzon, Mt. Bulusan 1 coll.); Moluccas (Seram many coll.); New Guinea (Irian Jaya 6 coll., Papua New Guinea and New Ireland more than 20 coll.).
Pacific: Carolines (Ponape 2 coll.); Bougainville (1 coll.); Vanuatu (2 coll.); Samoa (9 coll.); Tahiti (1 coll.).
Note
The rhizome is glabrous according to Kato (1989). However, in some plants I observed hairs on the rhizome, the scales themselves being glabrous.