- Family (Christenhusz et al, 2011) : POLYPODIACEAE
- Family (As per The Plant List) : Polypodiaceae
- Species : Pyrrosia lanceolata
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Pyrrosia lanceolata (L.) Farw.
- Collection Nos : HFP 932
- Collector(s) Name : F. M. Jarrett, C. J. Saldanha & T.P.Ramamoorthy
- Key identification features : Rhizome long creeping, upto 2 mm thick, slender, densely covered by lanceolate scales. Stipes scattered, upto 4 cm apart, upto 2.5 cm long, 2 mm thick, flattened, winged along margin, pale brown, densely scaly at very base, rest of part sparsely covered by stellate hairs. Fronds simple, lanceolate, elliptic or linear-lanceolate, base decurrent upto winged stipe, margin entire or wavy; midrib marked by a shallow groove above; veins immersed, frond dark green above, brownish below; lower surface of frond densely covered by stellate hairs, upper surface glabrous; texture coriaceous. Sori irregularly distributed mainly in the distal part of pinna, orbicular, dark brown, naked; spores reniform or planoconvex, pale brown.
- Habit : Herb-Epiphytic
- Native : Tropical Africa; Tropical Asia
- Comments : Very common in the coastal belt in the W.Ghats growing on trees. Very variable fern Hovenkamp (1986) has merged P.adnescens (Sw.) Ching, P.nuda (Gies) Ching, P.varia (Kaulf.) Farw. With P.lanceolata
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Collection Locality : Hassan
- Distribution Locality : Dakshina Kannada; Kodagu; Shimoga; Hassan
- 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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