- Family (Christenhusz et al, 2011) : HEMIONITIDACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Pteridaceae
- Species : Hemionitis arifolia
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Hemionitis arifolia (Burm. f.) T. Moore
- Collection Nos : KSR & CJS 18571
- Collector(s) Name : K.Sankara Rao, C.J.Saldanha
- Key identification features : Rhizome erect when young, short, creeping when mature, upto 2 cm thick, densely covered by ovate-lanceolate scales. Stipes compact, numerous, black or dark brown; polished, brittle, upto 33 cm long in fertile fronds, upto 23 cm in sterile ones. Lamina simple, dimorphic, cordiform, deltoid, trilobed, entire; costa raised below, grooved above, densely scaly below; veins obscure both above and below, anastomosing closely, areoles seen as depressions in dry fronds; lamina pale green; texture chartaceous, long, soft, pale brown scales distributed all over the lower surface of sterile laminae. Sori continuous along the veins filling the entire surface of lamina when mature; intermixed with hairs and scales; spores trilete, spherical.
- Habit : Herb-Terrestrial
- Native : India; China; Sri Lanka; Malaysia
- Comments : Common fern distributed from sea level to high elevations in Karnataka.
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Collection Locality : Chikkaragihalli, Bannerghatta, Bangalore
- Distribution Locality : Bangalore; Chikamagalur; Dakshina Kannada; Hassan; Kodagu; Mysore; Shimoga; Tumkur
- 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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