• Family : TECTARIACEAE
  (HALBERD FERN FAMILY)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : TECTARIACEAE
• Basionym : Sagenia gemmifera Fée
• Synonym(s) : Tectaria gemmifera auct. non (Fée) Alston sensu Rajagopal & Bhat; Tectaria macrodonta (Fee) C. Chr.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Tectaria gemmifera (Fée) Alston
• Habit : Herb-Terrestrial
• Comments / notes : Occasional in moist and cool places of Ghat slopes.
• Fertile : September-November
• Collector(s) Name : F. M. Jarrett & T. P. Ramamoorthy; PK Rajagopal
• Collection Nos : HFP 958; PKR 301
• Collection Locality : Pullahalli, Hassan
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Nallamalai Hills (Kurnool district), Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Chikamagalur district, Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Kodagu district, Mysore district, Shimoga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Odisha : Kalahandi district, Mahendragiri Hills (Ganjam district)
• Native : Tropical Asia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : 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; J.L. Ellis.1990. Flora of Nallamalais Vol-2; Rolla Seshagiri Rao. 1986. Flora of Srikakulam; H.O. Saxena and M. Brahmam. 1996. The Flora of Orissa, Vol-4
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Tectaria coadunata. Downloaded on 2 April 2025.

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