''Angiopteris smithii'' is a species of fern in the family

Marattiaceae Marattiaceae is the only family of extant (living) ferns in the order Marattiales. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), Marattiales is the only order in the subclass Marattiidae. The family has six genera and about ...

, which is native to Borneo, the Philippines, and Sulawesi. Unlike other forms of ''Angiopteris'' species, it is once-pinnate with huge leaflets up to long and wide.

Taxonomy

''Angiopteris smithii'' was first

scientifically described A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication. Its purpose is to provide a clear description of a new species of organism and explain how it diffe ...

by Marian Raciborski in 1902, based on cultivated material at

Buitenzorg Bogor City (), or Bogor (, ), is a landlocked city in the West Java, Indonesia. Located around south of the national capital of Jakarta, Bogor is the 6th largest city in the Jakarta metropolitan area and the 14th overall nationwide.

. In 1908,

Edwin Copeland Edwin Bingham Copeland (September 30, 1873 – March 16, 1964) was an American botanist and agriculturist. He is known for founding the University of the Philippines College of Agriculture at Los Baños, Laguna and for being one of the America' ...

described a new genus of

, ''Macroglossum'', in which he included a single newly described species, ''Macroglossum alidae''. Named for the wife of

Cecil Joslin Brooks Cecil Joslin Brooks (1875–1953) was a British metallurgical chemist who also collected insects, plants (especially ferns), animals and butterflies. Educated privately and at King's College, London, he was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Ch ...

, it was collected in

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by H. S. Young. Douglas H. Campbell collected a quantity of material in Sarawak in 1913 to study the species, and after correspondence with Copeland, concluded that it was closely related but not identical to the material at Buitenzorg, which he transferred to ''Macroglossum'' as ''Macroglossum smithii'' in 1914. Subsequent authors doubted whether these species were, in fact, distinct, and a revision of ''Angiopteris'' by Cristina Rolleri in 2003 subsumed ''Macroglossum'' in that genus and treated the two species as conspecific under the name ''A. smithii''.

References

Marattiidae Flora of Borneo Plants described in 1902 {{Fern-stub