Asplenium punjabense

Asplenium punjabense Bir, Fraser-Jenk. & Lovis, Fern Gaz. 13(1): 55 1985. ;
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Afghanistan to W. Himalaya: Afghanistan, Pakistan, West Himalaya as per POWO;

NW-India (Himachal Pradesh), Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan (Peshawar, Chitral, Swat), Afghanistan as per Catalogue of Life; 

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Asplenium ceterach L. (Ceterach officinarum Willd.) : 7 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3)

Asplenium ceterach L.
Rustyback fern
Family – Aspleniaceae
At Kullu, Himachal Pradesh
Habitat – Growing along rocks near a ravine.
Altitude – 1500metres
Dated – 10/7/2017
This fern is very much rusty on dorsal side of frond as compared to Asplenium dalhousiae.

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Unfortunately the photos simply do not show the diagnostic part that needs to be seen.  We nearly always require the BASAL part of a frond, with scales on the stipe and stipe-base intact – but everyone likes to send field-photos where the necessary features are not shown – whereas photos of properly prepared (and not all folded-up) herbarium specimens would be much more useful.
However I suspect from what I can see – the slightly darker scales, not the very pale or whiteish ones of A. ceterach, and sori sticking up through a thinnish scale-covering – that this is considerably more likely to be Asplenium punjabense Bir, Fraser-Jenk. & Lovis. It is in the area of the type-collection of that species and is usually commoner there than A. ceterach is. 

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Thanks …  Yes sir you may be right that it is Asplenium punjabense.  But please see some more pics that I have recently found in my laptop and I hope that these may help to confirm species. Earlier I have taken help from … and he had suggested me that it looks close to Asplenium cetarach.

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References:
Catalogue of Life  The Plant List Ver.1.1 (Unresolved) Tropicos Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms edited by K.U. Kramer, P.S. Green (2013)