Diplazium murkele
Indonesia, Moluccas: Seram.
Terrestrial, in deep shade, near brooks, in ravines etc., in lowland to montane forest, disturbed forest, often noted for calcareous areas, lowland to 1350 m, possibly higher.
The epithet is to be treated as a word in apposition and derives from Murkele Ridge, the location of the type specimen and a number of other specimens.
Diplazium murkele differs from D. walkeri mainly in the basal scales that are not thin and translucent but thick and fleshy. However, they often also appear to show signs of disintegration, which may explain the scarcity of intact scales in the collected specimens. The lamina is somewhat smaller, and has distinctly fewer reduced pinnae near the basis, the pinnules on the other hand are a bit larger.
Diplazium murkele was not distinguished from D. vestitum in Kato 1984.