Davallodes seramense Kato, 1989
Description
Rhizome without the scales 5-15 mm in diametre (D. seramense Rhizome). Scales nearly black, without pale border, distinctly acicular, lacking marginal setae or setae rare, peltate, 6-10 mm long. Stipes 14-25 cm long. Lamina compound (D. seramense Leaf), bipinnate towards base and in the middle part, bearing multicellular hairs, 30-66 cm long by 14-28 cm broad, lower pinnae not very small, about one third to about as long as the longest. Hairs between veins on either surface present. Longest petiolules 1-1.5 mm long. Longest pinnae 10-17 cm long by 2.4-3.5 cm broad. Longest pinnules or pinnalobes 12-20 mm long by 3-5 mm broad, pinnatipartite. Hairs on leaf axes 0.1-1 mm long. Indusium attached at the base and only along part of the sides, pouch-shaped, free for the ciliate elongate upper half, oblong, longer than wide, 1 mm long by 0.3 mm broad; indusium lips triangular, separate from lamina margin (D. seramense indusia).
Distribution
Malesia: Sulawesi (Minahasa, Soputan Mt. 1 coll.); Central Seram (rather common).
Ecology
Epiphytic or epilithic in deep shade. Altitude 500-1300 m.
Note
This species is very near to Davallodes hirsutum , from the collections with pouch-shaped indusia of the latter species it only differs in the longer free distal halves of the indusium.