Herbarium JCB

Osmunda hugeliana Presl.

Family (Christenhusz et al, 2011) : MARATTIACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Osmundaceae
Species : Osmunda hugeliana
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Osmunda hugeliana Presl.
Collection Nos : HFP 1049
Collector(s) Name : F. M. Jarrett & T. P. Ramamoorthy
Endemism : South India; Central India
Key identification features : Rhizome is erect or sub-erect, massive, scales absent; stipes tufted, numerous, rufous brown, glabrous, glossy. Lamina lanceolate, bipinnate, distal one fourth to one-sixth part bearing sporangia; sterile pinnae upto seven pairs, alternate or sub-opposite, shortly stalked; pinnules upto eight pairs, alternate, sessile or shortly stalked; pinnae pale green to rufous brown, glabrous; texture subcoriaceous, stiff; fertile pinnules compressed, panicle forming, cylindrical, bearing large spherical sporangia all over the branches; spores trilete, globose.
Habit : Undershrub
Native : India
Conservation Status : Near Threatened (NT) (Jenkins, 2008)
Collection Locality : Hassan
Distribution Locality : Chikamagalur; Hassan; Kodagu; Shimoga; Uttara Kannada
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