The Polypodiaceae of the Philippine Islands : new species of edible Philippine fungi / by Edwin Bingham Copeland.

  • Edwin Bingham Copeland
Date:
1905
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Credit: The Polypodiaceae of the Philippine Islands : new species of edible Philippine fungi / by Edwin Bingham Copeland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    shape, and margin of the pinnae and their freedom from the racliis, and size of the palese. (62) P. albido-squamatum Blume. Rhizome stout, wide-creeping, clothed with reddish or gray-brown palese which are ovate at the base and long-subulate; stipe 15 to 40 cm. high, erect, polished; frond 30 to 60 cm. high, about 30 cm. broad, pinnate; pinnae erecto-patent, linear or lanceolate, very acuminate, entire or nearly so, coriaceous, glabrous, the lower stalked, the upper sessile; main veins visible but not conspicuous, veinlets ending under submarginal lime-spots; sori in single rows, usually nearer the midrib than the margin. Philippine specimens are mostly narrower than the type, belonging in P. varicins Blume, which is not a distinct species. Luzon, Cuming 202, 236; Mounts Arayat and Mariveles, holier; Benguet, Topping 150, 215, 202, Elmer 6263; Mount Mariveles, Copeland; Jolo Archipelago, Burbidge. Malaya. (63) P. lagunense Christ, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 6 (1898) :201 cum leone. Rhizome wide-creeping, solid, clothed with ovate-subulate, umbonate, reddish- brown appressed scales; stipe 10 to 15 cm. high, firm, glabrous; frond 15 to 20 cm. high, 10 to 15 cm. broad, pinnate, dimorphous; pinnse of the sterile frond 6 or 7 on each side, remote, oval, 4 cm. long, 2 cm. broad, acuminate, suberenate, sessile or short-stalked, coriaceous, glabrous; pinnae of fertile frond linear-lanceolate, caudate, erecto-patent, 12 cm. long, 4 to 10 mm. broad, crenate; costa prominent, veins inconspicuous, veinlets hidden; sori large, round, immersed, in single rows, one sorus between each two main veins, midway between costa and margin. Los Banos, Laguna, Loher. § Selliguea. (64) P. Selliguea Mett. (Gymnogramme membranacea Hooker). Rhi- zome wide-creeping, clothed with small, linear, nearly black scales; stipe 5 to 15 cm. high, nearly naked; frond 15 to 30 cm. high, 2 to 4 cm. broad, very acuminate entire, attenuate below and decurrent, papyraceo-lierba- ceous, glabrous; main veins distinct to the margin but zigzag and very slender, united by similar transverse veinlets to form large hexangular areolse; sori in oblique interrupted lines, one line between each two main veins. Samar, Cuming 325, 334. Malaya. (65) P. macrophyllum Mett. Rhizome creeping, clothed with small, dark, lanceolate scales; stipe 2 to 3 cm. high, firm, scaly; frond 30 to 60 cm. high, C to 8 cm. broad, narrowed gradually toward both ends, entire or repand, papyraceous, glabrous; main veins conspicuous, not straight, areolse rather quadrangular, free veinlets*evident; sori in single continuous or interrupted rows between the main veins. Bohol, Cuming 351; Rizal, Loher; Benguet, Barnes 967. Malaya.