Common names: hoe a Maui ("Maui's paddle"), 'ekaha

Endemic                    

Name honors Abbe Urbain Jean Faurie (1847-1915), French Catholic missionary to Japan who collected plants in Hawai 'i in 1909-1910.

Plants medium-sized, terrestrial or epi-phytic. Rhizomes short-creeping, to 1 cm with scales, 4-8 mm diam. without scales, covered with scales, scales 3-7 mm long, dark brown to black, shiny, straight, rigid, narrowly triangular or lanceolate, composed of rectangular and regularly arranged .cells with long-attenuate tips, phyllopodia prominent. Stipes narrowly winged, wings widening and becoming blades, unwinged portion of stipes (3-)4-6(-7.5) cm long. Sterile blades erect, elliptic to oblanceolate, 17-45 cm long, glabrous. Veins parallel, anastomosing near margin uous commissural vein.

In mesic to wet forests, 600-1,350 m, on O'ahu (Ko'olau Range) and Moloka'i.

On O'ahu Elaphoglossum fauriei hybridizes with E. alatum and on Moloka 'i it hybridizes with E. parvisquameum, producing plants of intermediate character.

Elaphoglossum fauriei, a member of the Alatum group, may be recognized by its winged stipes; dark, nearly black, linear-triangular scales; and parallel veins, free and forking, arising from the midrib and all joining to form a continuous vein close to and parallel with the margin. This species is similar to E. parvisquameum, but it differs by having rhizomes with a denser covering of longer, darker, more linear scales. Known from the Ko'ola Range of O`ahu and from Moloka`i.