Davallodes borneense (Hooker, 1854) Copeland, 1917
Description
Rhizome without the scales 5-10 mm in diametre. Scales nearly black, with pale border quickly diminishing or disappearing towards the apex or without pale border, distinctly acicular or flat and nearly acicular, lacking marginal setae or setae rare, peltate, 5-13 mm long. Stipes 9-30 cm long. Lamina compound (D. borneense Leaf), pinnate with strongly dissected pinnae towards base and in the middle part, bearing multicellular hairs, 16-75 cm long by 9-26 cm broad, lower pinnae not very small, about one third to about as long as longest ones. Hairs between veins on either surface absent or nearly so. Longest petiolules 2-3 mm long. Longest pinnae 5-14 cm long by 1.5-4 cm broad. Longest pinnules or pinnalobes 12-17 mm long by 3-5 mm broad. Hairs on leaf axes 0.5 mm long. Indusium scale-like, attached at the narrow, cordate base only, reniform, wider than long, 0.3-0.5 mm long by 0.75-1 mm broad (D. borneense SEM, picture of indusia).
Distribution
Malesia: Borneo (Sarawak 11 coll., Sabah 7 coll., Kalimantan Timur c. 15 coll., Kalimantan Selatan 3 coll.).
Ecology
On tree trunks in wet places, along rivers etc. in deep shade. Altitude: from see level to 1500 m.