Davallodes hirsutum (John Smith ex C. Presl, 1851) Copeland, 1908
Description
Rhizome without the scales 3-7 mm in diametre (D. hirsutum Rhizome). Scales nearly black, without pale border, distinctly acicular, lacking marginal setae or setae rare, peltate, 10-20 mm long. Stipes 2-20 cm long. Lamina compound (D. hirsutum Habitus), pinnate with strongly dissected pinnae, or bipinnate towards base and in the middle part, bearing multicellular hairs, 20-100 cm long by 6-28 cm broad, gradually narrowed towards its base and with lower pinnae very small, or (rarely) lower pinnae not very small, about one third to about as long as longest ones. Hairs between veins on either surface present (rarely absent). Longest petiolules 0-3 mm long. Longest pinnae 4-14 cm long by 1.2-4 cm broad. Longest pinnules or pinnalobes 6-20 mm long by 2-6 mm broad. Hairs on leaf axes 0.5-1.5 mm long. Indusium attached at the base and only part of the sides, or also attached along the sides, pouch-shaped, or very small and inconspicuous, more or less triangular to rhomboid or oblong, longer than wide or about as wide as long (often with ciliate free upper part), 0.2-0.8 mm long by 0.2-0.6 mm broad. Indusium lips truncate, separated from or even with laminar margin, or triangular, separated from laminar margin (D. hirsutum SEM1, D. hirsutum SEM5, pictures of indusia).
Distribution
Malesia: Borneo (Kalimantan Barat 2 coll., Kalimantan Timur 5 coll., Sabah 7 coll.); Philippines (Luzon 15 coll.; Mindanao 11 coll.; Negros 1 coll.; Samar 1 coll.); Sulawesi (16 coll.); New Guinea (Irian Jaya, S. of Manokwari 1 coll.; Papua New Guinea incl. Bismarck Archipelago, Bougainville, and Goodenough I. 18 coll.).
Ecology
Epiphytic, also in secundary and open forest. Altitude 350-1900 m.