Doryopteris pentagona
Doryopteris pentagona is a common species on Santa Catarina Island that often grows along trails in secondary forest.
Diplazium cumingii
Collection data (S. A. James & M. Sundue, 1541 )
Classification & Common Names
- Class: Polypodiopsida
- Family: Athyriaceae
- Genus: Diplazium Sw.
- Species: Diplazium cumingii (C.Presl.) C.Chr
Collection Data
- Collection Date: 5-II-2012
- Collection Number: 1541
- Primary collector: S. A. James & M. Sundue
- Collected by: Shelley James, Michael Sundue, Allen Allison, Si He, Dubi Damas, Bulisa Iova, Oliver Tallowin
- Determined by: M. Sundue
- Habitat: Primary Forest
- Habit: Terrestrial
- Specimen locations: LAE, VT
Collection Location
- General location: Sibium Mtns.
- Country: Papua New Guinea
- State or Province: Northern Province
- Coordinates: -9.285825,148.27266
- Elevation: 1340 m
About the Author
Michael Sundue
My field work is centered in Colombia, and Papua New Guinea. I am based at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E). If you have any ferns that you want identified, please send them to me!
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Amazing pictures! This species very closes to D. riparium. Sometimes I could hardly distinguish one from another.
Thanks for mentioning that. Do you think they are synonymous? Diplazium donianum and D. bantamense are two others that I have considered. If you decide it might be something else, please let me know.