Davallia solida (Forst.) Sw.

Species

Pteridophytes > Polypodiales > Davalliaceae > Davallia

Characteristics

Rhizome 4-14 mm in diam., densely covered with scales, generally not white waxy. Scales red-brown, with pale border from base to apex, narrowed evenly toward apex or above much broader base evenly narrowed toward apex, not or seldom curling backward, peltate, 5-10 × 1-1.2 mm, with multiseptate hairs at least when young (hairs at least at apex of young scales, ca. 1 mm, woolly). Stipe pale, adaxially grooved, 9-35 cm, glabrous or with few scales; lamina compound, bipinnate or tripinnate toward base and in middle part, deltoid and broadest toward base, 15-90 × 21-40 cm, glabrous (sometimes with hairs at junction of rachis and petiolule), not or slightly dimorphic. Longest petiolules 5-25 mm; pinnae linear-triangular or narrowly ovate, apex acuminate; longest pinnae 11-28 × 6-15 cm; pinnules of at least larger pinnae anadromous, deltoid or rhombic; longest pinnules 40-100 × 15-80 mm; ultimate pinnae linear-oblong or rhombic, lobed almost to midrib, or only shallowly lobed (in bipinnate fronds: ultimate segments shallowly lobed); ultimate segments 10-40 × 3-17 mm. Rachises and costae glabrous (often hairs at junction of petiolules). Margins of each pinna not thickened. Veins in sterile ultimate lobes pinnate, reaching margin or not; false veins not present. Sori separate, borne several on a segment, at forking point of veins; indusium also attached along sides, pouch-shaped, oblong, longer than wide, 1.2-2 × 0.5-1 mm, upper margin not elongated, truncate or slightly rounded, separated from or even with lamina margin; lamina not extending into teeth beyond a sorus.
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Rhizome thick, white-waxy, densely covered with appressed black-brown scales with paler margins bearing long crisped hairs. Fronds 2-3-pinnate, broadly triangular. Pinnules deeply lobed, glabrous on upper surface; margins crenate and apex acuminate to obtuse in sterile fronds, margins dentate and apex acute in fertile fronds; false veins very short or absent. Sori scattered around edges of ultimate lobes, with a short or long tooth on 1 or both sides; indusium elongate, attached at base and along sides.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support epiphyte
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Mature height (meter) 0.2 - 1.0
Root system rhizome
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light 4-6
Soil humidity 5-7
Soil texture 7-8
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Hardiness (USDA) 10-11

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Cultivation

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Images

Habit

Davallia solida habit picture by Steve FAAEVA (cc-by-sa)
Davallia solida habit picture by Steve FAAEVA (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Davallia solida leaf picture by Steve FAAEVA (cc-by-sa)
Davallia solida leaf picture by Steve FAAEVA (cc-by-sa)
Davallia solida leaf picture by Coordination Endemia (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Davallia solida world distribution map, present in American Samoa, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, China, Fiji, Micronesia (Federated States of), Ghana, Guam, Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Northern Mariana Islands, Niue, Pitcairn, Philippines, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Tokelau, Tonga, Taiwan, Province of China, United States of America, Viet Nam, Wallis and Futuna, and Samoa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17080730-1
WFO ID wfo-0001111449
COL ID 34BTY
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 448007
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Synonyms

Davallia caudata Davallia lindleyi Davallia ornata Davallia plumosa Davallia splendens Davallia tahitensis Davallia robinsonii Parestia caudata Stenolobus kunzeanus Stenolobus ornatus Davallia procera Davallia solida Davallia subsolida Davallia magellanica Humata solida Microlepia splendens Nephrodium lucidulum Stenolobus solidus Trichomanes solidum Davallia elmeri

Lower taxons

Davallia solida var. pyxidata Davallia solida var. fejeensis Davallia solida var. arctotheca