pectinala

Updated: May 19, 2025

We tramped at times waist deep through ferns, some green, some dark red, and some lined with yellow, clumps of the splendid Dipteris Horsfieldi and Matonia pectinala, with their slender stems and wide-spreading palmate fronds towering two feet above our heads.

Rounsevelle Wildman - Tales of the Malayan Coast: From Penang to the Philippines