Araiostegia species- Nagarkot, Nepal
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Araiostegia species- Suryabinayak, Nepal
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Arachniodes amabilis (Blume) Tindale ? (Japan to Tropical Asia: India, Japan, Jawa, Korea, Lesser Sunda Is., Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Vietnam as per POWO)
Bolbitis beddomei Fraser-Jenk. & Gandhi (S. India as per POWO)
Bolbitis feeiana (Copel.) Fraser-Jenk. & Gandhi (W. India as per POWO)
Bolbitis semicordata (Bak.) Ching (S. India, Sri Lanka as per POWO)
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Cyrtomium anomophyllum (Zenker) Standish ex J.J.Blandy (Indian Subcontinent to China (W. Sichuan, NW. Yunnan), Japan (Kyushu), Taiwan: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, India, Japan, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO)
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Cyrtomium caryotideum (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) C. Presl (Pakistan to Temp. E. Asia and Philippines, Hawaiian Islands: Assam, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hawaii, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO)
Davallia griffithiana Hook. (E. Himalaya to Nansei-shoto (Okinawa-jima) and Indo-China: Assam, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Tibet, Vietnam as per POWO)
Davallia solida var. fejeensis (Hook.) Noot. (Introduced) (Caroline Islands (Pohnpei), Fiji, Tubuai Islands (Rapa Iti) as per POWO)
Davallia species- Kalimpong, West Bengal
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Davallodes pulchra (D.Don) M.Kato & Tsutsumi (Indian Subcontinent to S. China and Indo-China: Assam, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO)
Drynaria quercifolia (L.) J. Sm. (Hainan to Tropical Asia and N. Australia: Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Western Australia as per POWO)
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Dryopteris atrata (Wall) Ching (SW. India, Central Nepal to China and Indo-China, Japan, Taiwan: Assam, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Japan, Myanmar, Nepal, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam as per POWO)
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Dryopteris caroli-hopei Fraser-Jenk. (Himalaya to China (C. Yunnan) and N. Myanmar: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, West Himalaya as POWO)
Dryopteris sparsa (D. Don) Kuntze (Himalaya to China and Myanmar: Assam, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO)
Dryopteris stewartii Fraser-Jenk. (Afghanistan to W. Nepal: Afghanistan, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya as per POWO)
Dryopteris wallichiana (Spreng.) Hyl. (Tropical & Subtropical America, Türkiye to Japan and New Guinea, Hawaiian Islands, Gough Island: Argentina Northwest, Assam, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Galápagos, Guatemala, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Panamá, Peru, Philippines, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Tibet, Tristan da Cunha, Turkey, Venezuela, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO)
Elaphoglossum commutatum (Mett. ex Kuhn) Alderw. ? (Taiwan, S. India to New Guinea: Borneo, India, Jawa, Malaya, New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand as per POWO)
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Elaphoglossum stelligerum (Wall. ex Baker in Hook. & Baker) T. Moore ex Alston & Bonner (Indian Subcontnent to China (Yunnan) and Peninsula Malaysia: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO)
Goniophlebium fieldingianum (Kunze ex Mett.) T.Moore (Himalaya to China (Yunnan, Sichuan), Taiwan: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO (Goniophlebium fieldingianum (Kunze ex Mett.) T.Moore))
Goniophlebium lachnopus (Wall. ex Hook.) Bedd. (Himalaya to China (Yunnan, Sichuan) and N. Thailand: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO (Goniophlebium lachnopus (Wall. ex Hook.) Bedd.))
Lepisorus contortus (Christ) Ching (Indian Subcontinent to China, Taiwan: Assam, Bangladesh, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO)
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Lepisorus microphyllus (C.Presl) ined. (Arunachal Pradesh to Temp. E. Asia: Assam, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Vietnam as per POWO);
Lepisorus nudus (Hook.) Ching (Indian Subcontinent to China (Yunnan) and Indo-China, Sumatera, Japan: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, India, Japan, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Sumatera, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO)
Lepisorus scolopendrium (Ching) Mehra & Bir (Himalaya to S. China and Indo-China: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Hainan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO)
Lepisorus sublinearis (Bak. ex Takeda) Ching ? (Himalaya to China (Yunnan) and Indo-China: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO)
Lepisorus zippelii (Blume) C.F.Zhao, R.Wei & X.C.Zhang ? (Tropical & Subtropical Asia: Assam, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO)
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Leptochilus lanceolatus Fée (India to New Guinea: Borneo, India, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO)
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Leptochilus pteropus subsp. minor (Bedd.) Fraser-Jenk. (S. Central China to Tropical Asia: Andaman Is., China South-Central, India, Lesser Sunda Is., Myanmar, New Guinea, Sri Lanka as per POWO)
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Leptochilus species- South-west Maharashtra, W. ghats
Leucostegia truncata (D. Don) Fraser-Jenk. (Tropical & Subtropical Asia: Assam, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO)
Microsorum membranaceum (D. Don) Ching (Tropical & Subtropical Asia: Assam, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO (Bosmania membranacea (D.Don) Testo))
Microsorum punctatum (L.) Copel. (Tropical & Subtropical Old World: Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Comoros, East Himalaya, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Marquesas, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe as per POWO)
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Nephrolepis brownii (Desv.) Hovenkamp & Miyam. (Tropical & Subtropical Asia to Pacific: Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cook Is., Fiji, Hainan, India, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kermadec Is., Laccadive Is., Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Marianas, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Ogasawara-shoto, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Queensland, Society Is., Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Thailand, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Vanuatu, Vietnam; Introduced into: Bahamas, Belize, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Florida, Guatemala, Hawaii, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Windward Is. as per POWO)
Nephrolepis cordifolia (L.) C. Presl (São Tomé, SW. Cameroon, W. Indian Ocean, Tropical & Subtropical Asia to Pacific: Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caroline Is., China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, East Himalaya, Fiji, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, Hawaii, India, Japan, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Korea, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Marquesas, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New South Wales, Norfolk Is., Ogasawara-shoto, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Queensland, Réunion, Seychelles, Society Is., South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Tubuai Is., Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Himalaya; Introduced into: Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Azores, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, California, Cape Provinces, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, France, French Guiana, Galápagos, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Madeira, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicaragua, Northern Provinces, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Suriname, Swaziland, Tanzania, Windward Is. as per POWO)
Nephrolepis exaltata (L.) Schott and its cultivars (Introduced) (Tropical & Subtropical America: Arizona, Bahamas, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Florida, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Gulf, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Texas, Turks-Caicos Is.; Introduced into: Algeria, Azores, Bangladesh, Canary Is., Hawaii, India, Kermadec Is., Line Is., Morocco, Portugal, Queensland, St.Helena, Tanzania, Tubuai Is., Western Australia as POWO)
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Nephrolepis species- Doddamagaravalli village, chikkamagalur district, Karnataka
Oleandra undulata (Willd.) Ching (S. India, China (Yunnan) and Indo-China: Cambodia, China South-Central, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO)
Oleandra wallichii (Hook.) C. Presl (Himalaya to China (Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi) and Indo-China, Taiwan: Assam, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO)
Phymatosorus cuspidatus subsp. beddomei (S.R.Ghosh) Fraser-Jenk. (S. India as per POWO)
Phymatosorus scolopendria (Burm. f.) Pic. Serm. (Tropical & Subtropical Old World: Andaman Is., Angola, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, China Southeast, Christmas I., Comoros, Cook Is., Easter Is., Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, Howland-Baker Is., India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Line Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Marshall Is., Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Niue, Northern Provinces, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Queensland, Rodrigues, Réunion, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Solomon Is., South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zaïre, Zimbabwe as per POWO)
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Platycerium alcicorne Desv. (Introduced) (S. Tropical Africa, W. Indian Ocean: Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, Seychelles, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe; Introduced into: India as per POWO)
Platycerium bifurcatum (Cav.) C. Chr. (Introduced) (E. Australia, Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia: Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., New Caledonia, New South Wales, Norfolk Is., Queensland, Sulawesi; Introduced: Canary Is., Colombia, Hawaii, KwaZulu-Natal, New Zealand North as per POWO)
Platycerium wallichii Hook. (Assam to China (W. Yunnan) and Indo-China: Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO)
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Polystichum manmeiense (Christ) Nakaike (Himalaya to China (Guizhou, Yunnan), Taiwan to Philippines: China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Taiwan, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO)
Polystichum nepalense (Spreng.) C. Chr. (Himalaya to China (Yunnan, Sichuan) and Philippines (Luzon): China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Taiwan, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO)
Polystichum squarrosum (D. Don) Fée (Indian Subcontinent to China (SW. Sichuan) and N. Myanmar: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO)
Polystichum stimulans (Kunze ex Mett.) Bedd. (Himalaya to China (Yunnan, Sichuan): China South-Central, East Himalaya, Nepal, Tibet, West Himalaya as per POWO)
Polystichum yunnanense Christ (Yemen, Afghanistan to China (SW. Sichuan, Yunnan, W. Guizhou) and Myanmar: Afghanistan, Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet, West Himalaya, Yemen as per POWO)
Pyrrosia adnascens (Sw.) Ching (Nepal to S. China and Indo-China, Central Nansei-shoto, Taiwan to Philippines: Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Laos, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO)
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Pyrrosia costata Tagawa & K. Iwats. (Indian Subcontinent to China (Yunnan) and Indo-China: Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO)
Pyrrosia flocculosa (D. Don) Ching (Himalaya to China (Yunnan, Guangxi) and N. Indo-China: Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO)
Pyrrosia heterophylla (L.) M. Price (S. India, Sri Lanka as per POWO)
Pyrrosia lanceolata (L.) Farw. ? (Tropical & Subtropical Asia to W. Pacific: Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Is., China South-Central, Christmas I., East Himalaya, Fiji, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Queensland, Samoa, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Tonga, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., West Himalaya as per POWO)
Pyrrosia piloselloides (L.) M.G. Price (Assam to Japan and Papuasia: Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Japan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO)
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Pyrrosia porosa (C. Presl) Hovenkamp (Indian Subcontinent to Japan and Indo-China, Philippines (Luzon): Assam, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO)
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Selliguea capitellata (Mett.) X.C.Zhang & L.J.He (Himalaya to S. Central China and Indo-China: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO)
Selliguea montana (Sledge) Hovenkamp (S. India, Sri Lanka as per POWO)
Selliguea oxyloba (Wall. ex Kunze) Fraser-Jenk. (Himalaya to S. China and Indo-China: Assam, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO)
Tectaria coadunata (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) C. Chr. (E. Tropical Africa, Tropical & Subtropical Asia: Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Kenya, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya as per POWO)
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Tectaria species- Doddamagaravalli village, Chikkamagalur district, Karnataka
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Polypodiaceae (ferns) with comparative images:
Species, genus & family pages of Polypodiaceae are now with comparative images. On clicking the link of species, one can check the complete details.
May I request you to pl. go through & point out mistakes, if any. I hope this will aid in identification in future. If anybody can send images of other species of this family (for incorporation in the website), if any, or can identify unidentified/ wrongly identified images, it will be really nice. Pl. circulate it widely, for the benefit of all concerned.
