Davallia sessilifolia Blume, 1828
Description
Rhizome without the scales 0.8-1.3 mm in diametre, white waxy under the scales (D. sessilifolia Rhizome). Scales red-brown with pale border from base to apex or not, narrowed evenly towards the apex, often curling backward, not bearing multiseptate hairs, toothed, peltate, 5-8 mm long by 0.5 mm broad. Stipes pale, adaxially grooved, 0.5-7 cm long, glabrous or with few scales. Lamina simple (D. sessilifolia Habitus), one pectinate or pinnatifid leaf, or pinnate towards base, ovate, bearing multicellular hairs, or glabrous, 2-16 cm long by 1.8-5 cm broad, not or slightly dimorphous. False veins not present. Veins in ultimate lobes pinnate. Sori separate, borne several on a segment at the forking point of veins. Indusium attached at the broad base and hardly or not at the sides, semicircular, wider than long or about as wide as long, 1.1-1.8 mm long by 1.2-1.8 mm broad, upper margin not elongated, truncate or slightly rounded, separated from or even with lamina margin (D. sessilifolia SEM, picture of indusia).
Distribution
Malesia: Sumatra (Kerinci 2 coll.); Java (many coll.); Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali 1 coll., Lombok, 1 coll., Flores 4 coll.); Borneo (Kalimantan Timur, Berau 1 coll.); Philippines (Luzon 1 coll.); Sulawesi (Central, Sopu Valley 4 coll., Northern 6 coll.); Moluccas (Ternate 2 coll.); New Guinea (many coll.).
Pacific: Solomon Islands (2 coll.); Vanuatu (7 coll.); Fiji (7 coll.).
Ecology
Epiphytic from deep shade to full sun. Altitude 150-1770 m.