Tectaria
Tectaria kehdingiana
Nomenclature
SUMMARY
Rhizome short, erect, bearing a tuft of fronds at apex, scaly; scales gradually narrowing from base towards apex, up to 3.75 mm long, shining brown with paler margin, the margin hairy. Fronds dimorphic, lamina simple. Sterile fronds: stipes castaneous, to 6.6 cm long, with short white hairs; lamina 29.0–48.0 x 4.7–6.7 cm, elliptic-oblong, apex acute, base cuneate, margin entire, glabrous on both surfaces except few short hairs on midrib or main veins beneath, texture chartaceous to subcoriaceous, venation reticulate forming many areoles and areolules with free included veinlets, veinlets simple or forked. Fertile fronds: stipes to 38 cm long, with short white hairs; lamina 30.0–38.1 x 1.7–2.1 cm, elliptic-oblong, apex acute, base cuneate, margin subentire to undulate, veins forming two rows of areoles with free included veinlets, veinlets simple. Sori large, one to each areole, terminal on included veinlets, covered throughout abaxially, rather deeply impressed on abaxial surface of lamina, indusia peltate, persistent.