• Family (Christenhusz et al, 2011) : ASPLENIACEAE
• Family (As per The Plant List) : Aspleniaceae
• Species : Asplenium zenkerianum
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Asplenium zenkerianum Kunze
• Collection Nos : CS 17041
• Collector(s) Name : C. J. Saldanha & F. M. Jarrett
• Key identification features : Rhizome short creeping or prostrate, densely covered by ovate to ovate-lanceolate scales all over. Stipes are crowded, dark brown abaxially, green adaxially when fresh, rounded below, grooved above, densely or sparsely covered by pale brown, fimbriate scales. Lamina oblong-lanceolate, apex acuminate, simply pinnate; usually rooting by apical bud formed below the costa of the terminal pinna; pinnae about 15 pairs, spreading, shortly stalked; pinnae dark green, glabrous above and below, texture chartaceous. Sori linear along basal part of acroscopic veinlet forming two oblique rows along the costa; indusia yellowish-green when young, entire, glabrous; spores ellipsoid or spherical.
• Habit : Herb-Terrestrial
• Native : India; Sri Lanka
• Comments : Lithophytes on fully shaded forest floor alongside stream banks
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Collection Locality : Kodaikanal
• Floras referred : Fraser-Jenkins, Taxonomic revision of Indian Subcontinental Pteridophytes 2008; Rajagopal & Bhat, Pteridophytic flora of Karnataka State- 1998; Manickam V.S & Irudayaraj V. (1992)- Pteridophyte flora of W.Ghats, South India

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