Davallia brevipes Copeland, 1906
Description
Rhizome without the scales 2-3.8 mm in diametre, white waxy under the scales (D. brevipes Rhizome). Scales red-brown, without pale border, narrowed evenly towards the apex, not or seldom curling backward, bearing multiseptate hairs at least when young, peltate, 7-9 mm long by 1.5-2.5 mm broad. Stipes pale or dark brown, adaxially grooved, 2-13 cm long, bearing hairs and/or scales when young, or glabrous or with few scales. Lamina compound (D. brevipes Habitus1), tripinnate towards base and in the middle part, deltoid and broadest towards base, bearing multicellular hairs, 8-23 cm long by 5-14 cm broad, not or slightly dimorphous. Longest petiolules 1-3 mm long. Pinnae deltoid. Longest pinnae 2.5-8 cm long by 1.5-4.5 cm broad. Pinnules of at least the larger pinnae anadromous, linear oblong. Longest pinnules 10-30 mm long by 3-10 mm broad. Ultimate leaflets linear oblong, lobed almost to the midrib. Ultimate segments or lobes acute and usually ending in a tooth, 0.5-4 mm long by 0.3-1 mm broad. Upper ridge at the junction of the costa and pinna-rachis with a swollen lip. Leaf axes, at least rachises, hairy. Veins in sterile ultimate lobes simple or forked, reaching the margin. False veins absent. Sori separate, frequently single on a segment, at the forking point of veins. Indusium also attached along the sides, pouch-shaped, oblong, longer than wide, 1-1.5 mm long by 0.5 mm broad, upper margin elongated, free, separated from or even with lamina margin (D. brevipes SEM, picture of indusia). Lamina generally extending into a tooth at both sides of a sorus.
Distribution
Malesia: Philippines (Mindanao: Agusan, San Ramon, Zamboanga prov. 1 coll. each); Central Sulawesi (Mt. Wawonseru, SW. of Soroako 1 coll., Sopu Valley above Palu 3 coll.); Moluccas (Seram 1 coll.); New Guinea (Irian Jaya, Albatros bivak 1 coll., Cyclops Mts 2 coll.; Papua New Guinea: E. Highl., W. Highl., Fly River, Morobe prov., New Ireland, 5 coll.).
Pacific: Bougainville (1 coll.); Samoa, Upolu (1 coll.).
Ecology
Epiphytic, often low on trees, or epilithic, sometimes in exposed places. Altitude 80-1100 m.