Selliguea plantaginea explained

Selliguea plantaginea is a fern species in the genus Selliguea.

A holotype, collected on the Iles du Vent, Tahiti, in 1838 during the Wilkes expedition, is held at United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution (Herbarium code: US)^[1]

Description

Selliguea plantaginea has often been confused with S. feeoides, but differs in that S. feeoides has frequent hydathodes on the upper surface of the fronds, while in S. plantaginea, hydathodes are absent or infrequent.

Distribution

Selliguea plantaginea has been found in Sulawesi, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, and the Society Islands (Tahiti and Huahine).^[2]

Images

Sets of images from specimens found in the cloud forest on Mount Tohiea, Mo'orea^[3] may be found at http://n2t.net/ark:/21547/R2MBIO36935 and http://n2t.net/ark:/21547/R2MBIO40051.

External links

• Flora Malesiana: Selliguea plantaginea
• Google images: Selliguea plantaginea
• Hovenkamp, P (1998) An account of the Malay-Pacific species of Selliguea (Polypodiaceae). Blumea 43, 1-108.

Notes and References

1. https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.us00134691 JSTOR Global Plants: Selliguea plantaginea US001344691
2. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17222280-1 Selliguea plantaginea Brack.
3. Nitta, J. H., Meyer, J.-Y., Smith, AR (2011) Pteridophytes of Mo'orea, French Polynesia: Additional New Records. American Fern Journal 101, 36-49