Tectaria coadunata

Tectaria coadunata (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) C. Chr., Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 26(6): 331 331 1931. (syn: Aspidium apiifolium Schkuhr (ambiguous synonym); Aspidium christii (Copel.) C.Chr.; Aspidium cicutarium var. coadunata (J.Sm.) Haines; Aspidium cicutarium subsp. coadunatum (Wall. ex Hook. & Grev.) C. Chr.; Aspidium coadunatum (J.Sm.) Christ (ambiguous synonym); Aspidium coadunatum Wall. (ambiguous synonym); Aspidium kwanonense Hayata; Aspidium macrodontum (Fée) Ching; Aspidium pinfaense Christ; Microbrochis apiifolia (Schkuhr) C.Presl; Nephrodium apiifolium (Schkuhr) Hook. & Arn.; Nephrodium cicutarium var. coadunatum (J.Sm.) C.B.Cl.; Pleocnemia kwangtungensis (Ching) Ching; Sagenia apiifolia (Schkuhr) Christ; Sagenia coadunata J.Sm.; Sagenia dilacerata Moore; Sagenia gigantea Bedd. (ambiguous synonym); Sagenia intermedia J.Sm.; Sagenia macrodonta Fée; Sagenia platyphylla J.Sm.; Sagenia variolosa Bedd; Tectaria apiifolia (Schkuhr) Copel.; Tectaria christii Copel.; Tectaria coadunata (J.Sm.) Raizada & N.P.Chowdhury; Tectaria coadunata var. elongata Kholia; Tectaria coadunata var. hirsuta Holtt.; Tectaria consimilis Ching & Chu H.Wang; Tectaria hippocrepis Copel.; Tectaria kwangtungensis Ching; Tectaria macrodonta (Fée) C. Chr.; Tectaria periya B.K.Nayar & Geev.);
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[efloraofindia:144034] AK:17:01:13:Please identify this Fern: 7 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (2)
Here I’m sending photographs of Fern, seen at Tamhini Ghat in Oct 2012.
Pz help in the Identification.

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This is Tectaria sps.

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This is Tectaria coadunata. Could people please say where from when sending photos? – give the State. Tamhini Ghat will simply not be known to the vast bulk of people (like unlocatable herbarium specimens which just say “Flora of …” and instead of giving the State, they give the name of some obscure nature-reserve or Wild-life Sanctuary, which will not be on any map!).

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The photographs are of Tectaria coadunata.
Tectaria coadunata having lot of variations, hence there are many biotypes which having sub-dimorphic fronds, variable shape and size of lamina hence many species synonymised under Tectaria coadunata (Tectaria macrodonta)  or wrongly identified as Tectaria cicutaria from India.

ANSEPT13/13 Fern for identification : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (7)

Date: August 2015
Place: Devaramane, Karnataka
Habitat: Shola

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Tectaria coaudunata

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Tectaria coadunata – veins anastomosing all over.  Why the sori seem to want to be so towards the margin, I’m not sure.  Weren’t there any plants with sori more spread out?

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Thank you … I did check the 5 plants in the immediate area for mature sori in the older parts of the plants and the distribution of sori was a constant.

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SK1359 07 AUG 2018 : 11 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (5)

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Poor photos of a small specimen of another abundantly common and well known species, page 549, photo on bottom right, Indian Checklist 2.

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This is Tecteria paradoxa.

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It might be Tectaria coadunata.

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Tectaria sp

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Thank you all. I guess Tectoria coadunata (Wall.ex.J.Sm.) C.Chr seems the correct ID.

Nepali Name : कालो निउरो  Kaalo Niuro

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Tamhini ghat near Pune, MH :: Fern for ID :: ARK2019-73 : 12 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (3)

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Compare with Tactaria sp.

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I guess you are right … Tectaria sp.

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Or T. coadunata – need veins.

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Ah yes, it does help – as we can now see the veins clearly, sorry I didn’t think to do that myself.  Being a bit slow on the laptop there!  I think the venation is like T. coadunata, as far as I know, but Dr. S.Y. Dong in Guangzhou, China, would be the best person to ask.  E-mail me and I’ll send you his e-mail address

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Tectaria coadunata SN28420a : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) – 4 mb.
Tectaria coadunata (Wall. ex Haines) Raizada & N.P.Chowdhury, wild terrestrial fern from Western Ghats Tamilnadu.

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Yes, but the authorities for T. coadunata are (J.Sm.) C.Chr. – Riazada & Chowdhury merely created an isonym due to lack of familiarity with the subject and the ICBN, and also had the wrong basionym as Aspidium coadunatum Wall. ex Hook. & Grev, was a later homonym of Kaulfuss. But John Smith legitimised it as Sagenia coadunata in 1842.
Haines was NOT the basionym either, merely combined a further isonym of Aspidium cicutarium var. coadunatum (J.Sm.) Bonap.
If you’d like to see the correct details see Annotated Checklist of Indian Pteridopjhytes 1: 365-367 (2016) – you can get it from Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehra Dun.

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Tectaria multicaudata ??: 3 images.
Date/Time-15 Jan 2022
Location- South Western Maharashtra in w. ghat hills.
Habitat- Wild-Lithophytic, in a waterfall, in moist, shady conditions.
Plant Habit- Herb. Single.
Height/Length-30cm
Leaves- venation is showing partly anastomosing veins forming narrow areoles immediately beside costae, without included free veinlets in areoles. (please correct me if I am wrong)

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Tectaria coadunata – rather poor material.

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References:

POWO  Catalogue of life  The Plant List Ver.1.1  Ferns of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia > Tectaria coadunata