Ant fern(Phymatodes sinuosa)?

Discoveries in Malaysia september 6 - 17/ 2012

September 20th 2012
Now that we live in Thailand it is easy to explore the surrounding countries. We had good reasons to do so. First of all we were invited at the wedding of Karim and Juliana at Kuala Lumpur. At the same time we would meet Majorie and Robin, my daughter and son. Secondly we have to leave country every 3 months, now that we have a retirement visa for a year. And last we are just eager to discover thi ... read more

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During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Fe... ... read more

10th May 2014

Derrick Rowe
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Lecanopteris sinuosa
Lecanopteris sinuosa (Wallich ex Hooker) Edwin Bingham Copeland published in University of California Publications in Botany 1929. Basionym Polypodium sinuosum William Jackson Hooker published in Species Filicum 1864. Synonyms Myrmecophila sinuosa (Hook.) T. Nakai ex H. Itô. 1935. Myrmecopteris sinuosa (Wall. ex Hook.) Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi Sermolli published in Webbia 31, (1) 1977. Although Phymatodes has been used as a synonym for other Lecanopteris species, it has not been used for L. sinuosa.

10th May 2014

Derrick Rowe
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Another update
Like many of the little known myrmecophytes (ant plants) the taxonomy of this species is complex. Correctly it is now Lecanopteris sinuosa (Wallich ex Hooker) Edwin Bingham Copeland published in University of California Publications in Botany 1929. Basionym (the first attempt to name it) was Polypodium sinuosum by William Jackson Hooker published in Species Filicum 1864. Synonyms Myrmecophila sinuosa (Hook.) T. Nakai ex H. Itô. 1935. Myrmecopteris sinuosa (Wall. ex Hook.) Rodolfo Emilio Giuseppe Pichi Sermolli published in Webbia 31, (1) 1977. The synonymous genus name Phymatodes has been used for other Lecanopteris species in scientific literature but not this one. Nakai's use of Myrmecophila was invalid because it had already been used for an ant-orchid genus in the Americas.

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