• Family (Christenhusz et al, 2011) : LOMARIOPSIDACEAE
• Family (As per The Plant List) : Dryopteridaceae
• Species : Bolbitis appendiculata
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Egenolfia appendiculata (Willd.) J. Sm.
• Collection Nos : KFP 12689
• Collector(s) Name : C. J. Saldanha, B.R.Ramesh, M. S. Eshwar Rao
• Key identification features : Rhizome is short, creeping and covered by ovate-lanceolate scales at the apex. Stipes are arranged in two closely, alternate rows, dark green when fresh and grey-green when dry, sparsely scaly at the base, rarely scaly above. Sterile lamina lanceolate, simply pinnate, progressively narrowed towards caudate; pinnae upto 25 pairs, one or two pairs of basal pinnae slightly reduced, opposite at the base; pinnae dark green when fresh, dark olivaceous when dry, glabrous above and below; texture firm, herbaceous; dark brown coloured, small and toothed scales scattered all over the rachis of fertile and sterile fronds, fertile fronds with longer stipes; fertile pinnae upto 25 pairs; sori acrostichoid, covering the lower surface, covering the costa when mature; spores monolete, spherical, pale brown.
• Habit : Herb-Lithophyte
• Native : China; India; Malaysia; Laos; Vietnam; Thailand; Japan; Province of China
• Comments : Occurs as a lithophyte along river banks under shaded rocks.
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Collection Locality : Chikmagalur
• Distribution Locality : Chikamagalur
• 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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