Hymenophyllum javanicum Spreng.

Species

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Characteristics

Rhizome long creeping, wiry, slender, ca. 0.5 mm in diam., laxly branched, with rather sparse brownish hairs. Stipes remote, naked but very base hairy, 2-5 cm, winged except near base; wings becoming broader upward, entire, ± crisped at edge. Rachis straight or zigzag in very upper portion, winged like upper portion of stipe. Lamina tripinnate to quadripinnatifid, oblong-subdeltoid, 4-7(-15) cm, 3-4(-7) cm wide at widest basal portion, glabrous, apex ± acute; pinnae 5 or more pairs, basal ones oblong-subdeltoid, up to 3 × 2 cm, base broadly cuneate to rounded, shortly stalked, apex moderately acute to rounded; upper ones gradually becoming smaller upward, oblong in outline; pinna rachis like rachis, ± zigzag throughout; ultimate segments up to 4 mm, narrow, 0.6-1 mm wide, decurrent into every axis forming distinct, wavy or crisped wings ca. 0.8 mm in width, margin entire but undulate or crisped, apex rounded to obtuse; internal cell walls thin, straight. Sori scattered usually on apical parts of pinnae; involucres bivalvate, deeply cleft to base; valves subdeltoid to oblong, 1.2-1.6 mm, up to 1 mm wide, lips finely toothed; receptacles wholly included within involucres, clavate to filiform. 2n = 72.
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Rhizome slender, smooth, intricately branched, with sparse brownish hairs. Fronds 3–10 cm long. Stipe 1–5 cm long, winged almost to the base; wing undulate or crisped. Lamina deeply 3-pinnatifid, 2.5–10 cm long, 2–4 cm wide; pinnae crowded, oblique. Ultimate segments 0.3–2 mm wide, flat to crisped; margins entire or uneven. Sori numerous on upper pinnae, often in adjacent pairs, borne on apices of lateral ultimate segments; sterile apex of each primary pinna normally projecting beyond outermost sori of the pinna; involucre oval to oblong, as wide as or wider than the segments, bilabiate almost to the base, 0.5–2.5 mm long, 0.8–1.4 mm wide; margins irregularly lobed or toothed; receptacle included. 
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Grows on rocks in and along streams in tropical rainforests at altitudes of 980–1600 m.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Images

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Distribution

Hymenophyllum javanicum world distribution map, present in Australia, Bhutan, China, Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, Viet Nam, Vanuatu, and Samoa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17123540-1
WFO ID wfo-0001124401
COL ID 3NKFS
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INPN ID 446517
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Synonyms

Mecodium productoides Mecodium samoense Hymenophyllum productoides Hymenophyllum samoense Hymenophyllum javanicum Hymenophyllum fimbriatum Mecodium fimbriatum Mecodium javanicum Hymenophyllum streptophyllum