Davallodes novoguineense (Rosenstock, 1913) Copeland, 1931
Description
Rhizome without the scales 5-7 mm in diametre (D. novoguineense Rhizome1). Scales light brown or nearly black, with pale border from base to apex, or this quickly diminishing or disappearing towards the apex (often at base with a broad pale border tapering upwards), flat and nearly acicular, with marginal setae at least in distal part, peltate, 3-8 mm long. Stipes 9-26 cm long. Lamina compound (D. novoguineense Habitus2), pinnate with strongly dissected pinnae, or (usually) bipinnate towards base and in the middle part, bearing multicellular hairs, 25-55 cm long by 9-38 cm broad, lower pinnae not very small, about one third to about as long as the longest. Hairs between veins on either surface present, or not. Longest petiolules 1-2.5 mm long. Longest pinnae 6-19 cm long by 2-6 cm broad. Longest pinnules or pinnalobes 20-40 mm long by 6-16 mm broad. Hairs on leaf axes 0.2-0.4 mm long. Indusium attached at the broad base and hardly or not at the sides, semicircular (sometimes ciliate), wider than long, 0.3 mm long by 0.5-0.8 mm broad (D. novoguineense SEM, picture of indusia).
Distribution
Malesia: New Guinea (Irian Jaya, Lake Habbema 1 coll.; Papua New Guinea many coll.).
Ecology
Terrestrial or a low epiphyte. Altitude 1500-3000 m.
Note
Some collections are intermediate with Davallodes hirsutum , especially in the shape of the indusium.