Lepisorus nudus (Hook.) Ching

 
  • Family : POLYPODIACEAE
    (OAKLEAF FERN FAMILY)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : POLYPODIACEAE
  • Basionym : Pleopeltis nuda Hook.
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Lepisorus nudus (Hook.) Ching
  • Habit : Herb
  • Comments / notes : Common in Western Ghats at higher elevation; grows as an epiphyte on trees or as lithophyte.
  • Fertile : June-October
  • Collector(s) Name : C. J. Saldanha; F.M.Jarrett & C.J.Saldanha
  • Collection Nos : CJS 15275; FMJ & CJS 17035
  • Collection Locality : Hassan; Kodaikanal
  • Distribution :
    • Karnataka : Chikamagalur district, Hassan district, Kodagu district, Chamrajnagar district, Shimoga district, Uttara Kannada district
    • Odisha : Similipal Hills (Mayurbhanj district), Ganjam district
  • Native : India, South-East Asia
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature : Fraser-Jenkins, Taxonomic revision of Indian Subcontinental Pteridophytes 2008; Rajagopal & Bhat, Pteridophytic flora of Karnataka State- 1998; H.O. Saxena and M. Brahmam. 1989. The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa; 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=Lepisorus nudus. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

Botanical Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)

Field Image(s)

Comments

All fields are required






 
Creative Commons License
Digital Flora of Peninsular India by Herbarium JCB is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ernet.in.