• Family (Christenhusz et al, 2011) : LINDSAEACEAE
• Family (As per The Plant List) : Lindsaeaceae
• Species : Lindsaea heterophylla
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Lindsaea heterophylla Dryand.
• Collection Nos : HFP 933
• Collector(s) Name : F. M. Jarrett; C. J. Saldanha & T.P.Ramamoorthy
• Key identification features : Rhizome upto 3 mm thick, often branched, densely covered by narrowly triangular scales all over. Stipes scattered, pale brown or stramineous above, tetragonal, glabrous and glossy. Lamina deltoid or ovate, bipinnate; pinnae upto 15 x 5 cm, imparipinnate, basal pairs often bear one to three branches on the basal acroscopic side; pinnules upto 10 pairs, alternate, shortly stalked; veins slightly distinct below, indistinct above, free, reaching the base of the sori in fertile ones; pinnules dark green, glabrous above and below; texture herbaceous. Sori submarginal, continuous all along the margin except at the cuneate base in unlobed pinnules, discontinuous in lobed ones; spores pale brown.
• Habit : Herb-Terrestrial
• Native : Madagascar
• Comments : Common in Western Ghats.
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Collection Locality : Hassan
• Distribution Locality : Hassan; Chikamagalur; Uttara Kannada; Dakshina Kannada
• Floras referred : Fraser-Jenkins, Taxonomic revision of Indian Subcontinental Pteridophytes 2008; Rajagopal & Bhat, Pteridophytic flora of Karnataka State- 1998

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