Publication Date:
2024-05-03
Description:
A new species of Chingia, known only from Vanikoro in the Solomon Islands, is described and illustrated. It
is distinctive in having flat, thickened, tortuous stipe scales. It is most closely related to an accession of Chingia clavipilosa from Mount Kinabalu, from which it is distinguished by its lack of hyaline acicular hairs on the abaxial laminar
axes. Other Chingia species in the Solomon Islands are distinguished by having abundant stiff, terete stipe scales.
Keywords:
Plant Science
;
Ecology
;
Evolution
;
Behavior and Systematics
;
Chingia
;
endangered species
;
endemic
;
fern
;
Papuasia
;
Solomon Islands
;
Thelypteris
Repository Name:
National Museum of Natural History, Netherlands
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Format:
application/pdf
Permalink
