Doodia media sensu Hillebr., non R. Br.; D. media R. Br. var. kunthiana (Gaudich.) C. Chr.
Common names: 'okupukupu, pamoho, 'okupu-kupu lau'i'i (lau, leaf, 'i 'i, reddish brown: reddish brown 'okupukupu) (P. & E.)
Endemic
Name honors Karl Kunth (1788-1850), professor of botany at the University of Berlin.
Plants medium-sized. Rhizomes decumbent, fronds clustered at apex. Fronds arranged in rosettes, 25-65+ cm long. Stipes usually about 1/2 frond length, deeply grooved adaxially, brown. Blades 1-pinnate basally, pinnatifid distally, lanceolate, slightly hairy or not, without marginal hairs; rachises grooved. Pinnae linear-lanceolate, basal 3-7 pairs usually short-stalked, margins serrate-dentate. Veins forked, joining shortly to form 1-3 layers of arched commissures near costae, then becoming single or again forked. Sori short, 1-2 mm long, medial on outer margins of areoles and parallel with midribs, on vein commissures, discrete, separate, not contiguous, often in 2 or 3 rows on larger fronds, usually not close to midrib. Indusia narrow, usually glabrous.
Common in seasonally mesic to semidry, loamy forest floors and slopes, 90-1,220 m, all major islands.
Doodia kunthiana may be recognized by its lanceolate, 1-pinnate fronds; forked veins that join to form 1-3 layers of arches along the midribs enclosing areoles; and discrete, noncontiguous sori on the outer margins of the layered vein arches, opening inward, mostly in 1 but often in 2 or 3 rows. It is usually found in mesic to semi-dry, open-to closed-canopy forests.