• Family : ASPLENIACEAE
  (SPLEENWORTS FAMILY)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : ASPLENIACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved Name
• Habit : Herb-Terrestrial
• Comments / notes : Lithophyte on fully shaded forest floor along stream banks
• Key identification features : Rhizome short creeping or prostrate, densely covered by ovate to ovate-lanceolate scales all over. Stipes are crowded, dark brown abaxially, green adaxially when fresh, rounded below, grooved above, densely or sparsely covered by pale brown, fimbriate scales. Lamina oblong-lanceolate, apex acuminate, simply pinnate; usually rooting by apical bud formed below the costa of the terminal pinna; pinnae about 15 pairs, spreading, shortly stalked; pinnae dark green, glabrous above and below, texture chartaceous. Sori linear along basal part of acroscopic veinlet forming two oblique rows along the costa; indusia yellowish-green when young, entire, glabrous; spores ellipsoid or spherical.
• Collector(s) Name : C. J. Saldanha & F. M. Jarrett
• Collection Nos : CS 17041
• Collection Locality : Kodaikanal
• Distribution :
  • Tamil Nadu : Kodaikanal (Dindigul district)
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Fraser-Jenkins, Taxonomic revision of Indian Subcontinental Pteridophytes 2008.
• 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=Asplenium zenkerianum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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