• Family (Christenhusz et al, 2011) : ASPLENIACEAE
• Family (As per The Plant List) : Aspleniaceae
• Species : Asplenium cheilosorum
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Asplenium cheilosorum Kunze ex Mett.
• Collection Nos : HFP 1183
• Collector(s) Name : Saldanha & Ramamoorthy
• Key identification features : The rhizome is short, creeping and densely scaly at the apex; scales lanceolate, pale brown, entire. The stipes are crowded, slender, dark brown, glossy and glabrous. The lamina is oblong-lanceolate, simply pinnate; pinnae upto 40 pairs, spreading, basal few pairs sub-sessile while others are sessile; pinnae dark green coloured, glabrous above and below; texture thin and membranous. Sori confined to lobes only, linear, sub-marginal along the veins, barrel-shaped; indusia pale brown, entire, sporangia and spores mostly abortive ones.
• Habit : Herb-Terrestrial
• Native : India; China; Sri Lanka; Malaysia
• Comments : They are lithophytes on fully shaded forest floors along stream banks.
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Collection Locality : Hassan
• Distribution Locality : Chikamagalur; Hassan; Kodagu
• 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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