Microlepia speluncae

Microlepia speluncae (L.) T. Moore, Index Fil. 93 1857. (syn: Acrophorus jamaicensis (Hook.) T.Moore; Alsophila grevilleana Wall. (ambiguous synonym); Aspidium dicksoniifolium A.Rich.; Aspidium puberum Wall.; Aspidium speluncae (L.) Willd.; Cystopteris aspidioides C.Presl; Cystopteris orientalis Desv.; Davallia divergens Kunze; Davallia flaccida R.Br. (ambiguous synonym); Davallia flaccida var. pyramidata C.B.Clarke; Davallia hirta Wall. (ambiguous synonym); Davallia jamaicensis Hook.; Davallia mollis Kunze; Davallia padioides Zoll.; Davallia pilosa Roxb.; Davallia polypodioides (Desv.) Hook. (ambiguous synonym); Davallia polypodioides D.Don (ambiguous synonym); Davallia polypodioides var. pubescens Hook.; Davallia polypodioides var. subglabra Hook.; Davallia speluncae (L.) Bak.; Davallia speluncae var. trichosticha (Hook.) Baker; Davallia subvolubilis Kunze; Davallia trichosticha Hook.; Davallia virens Wall.; Dennstaedtia lindsayiformis (Fée) C.Chr.; Dicksonia lessonii Bory; Dicksonia multifida Sw.; Dicksonia polypodioides Sw.; Dryopteris asperula (J.Sm. ex Hook.) C.Chr.; Dryopteris speluncae (L.) Underw. ex Britton;  Humata polypodioides (Sw.) Desv. (ambiguous synonym); Microlepia aspidioides C.Presl; Microlepia flaccida (R.Br.) J.Sm. (ambiguous synonym); Microlepia ganlanbaensis Ching; Microlepia hispidula Alderw.; Microlepia jamaicensis (Hook.) Fée; Microlepia lindsayiformis Fée; Microlepia mollis Moore (ambiguous synonym); Microlepia multifida C.Presl; Microlepia pilosula Prantl (ambiguous synonym); Microlepia pingpienensis Ching; Microlepia polypodioides (Desv.) C.Presl (ambiguous synonym); Microlepia pyramidata (Wall. ex C.B.Cl.) Lacaita; Microlepia rhomboidea J.Sm. (ambiguous synonym); Microlepia sablanensis Christ; Microlepia speluncae var. pubescens (Hook.) Sledge; Microlepia speluncae var. pyramidata (C.B.Cl.) Tard. & C.Chr.; Microlepia speluncae var. villosissima C.Chr.; Microlepia stenoloba Prantl; Microlepia straminea Ching; Microlepia subrhomboidea Ching; Microlepia subspeluncae Ching; Microlepia subvolubilis Moore; Microlepia trichosticha (Hook.) J.Sm. ex Copel.; Microlepia trichosticha (Hook.) J.Sm. ex Fée; Microlepia trichosticha J.Sm.; Polypodium asperulum J.Sm. ex Hook.; Polypodium nudum Forst. (ambiguous synonym); Polypodium speluncae L.; Scyphofilix speluncae (L.) Farw.);
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Tropics & Subtropics: Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Comoros, Cook Is., Cuba, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, French Guiana, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, Hawaii, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kazan-retto, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Ogasawara-shoto, Paraguay, Philippines, Queensland, Réunion, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Tonga, Uganda, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe as per POWO;
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Bermuda, French Guiana, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Ecuador, NE-Brazil (Pernambuco), SE-Brazil (Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro), Argentina (Misiones), S-Brazil (Santa Catarina), Paraguay (Alto Parana, Central, Guaira, Paraguari), Bolivia (La Paz), ?Peru, Trinidad, Tobago, Australia (N-Western Australia, NE-Queensland, Christmas Isl. (Austr.)), China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Yunnan), Taiwan, Tibet, Ryukyu Isl., ?Japan, Cambodia, Laos, Philippines, Palawan, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, India (Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam State, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, ?Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Tripura), Bhutan, Andaman Isl., Nicobar Isl., Bangladesh, peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand (widespread), Myanmar [Burma], Nepal, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Isl. (Bali, Lombok, Sumba, Sumbawa, Flores, Alor, Timor), Moluccas (Seram, etc.), Sumatra, Sulawesi, Solomon Isl. (Bougainville, Gizo, Guadalcanal, Santa Ysabel, Kolombangara, Makira, Nggela, Rendova, Vella Lavella), Bismarck Arch. (New Ireland), Santa Cruz Isl. (Nendo), Bonin Isl. (Chichijima), Volcano Isl. (Iwojima, Minami-Iwojima), Wallis & Futuna (Futuna Isl.), Hawaii (Kauai, Oahu, Hawaii Isl.), Fiji (Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Ovalau, Taveuni), Southern Marianas (Guam, Rota Isl.), Palau Isl., Micronesia (Truk, Moen, Tol, Udot, Fefan, Pohnpei, Kosrae), Tonga (Vava’u, Niuafo’ou, ‘Eua), Cook Isl. (Rarotonga), Western Samoa (Savaii, Upolu), American Samoa (Tutuila, Ofu, Ta’u), Vanuatu, Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko Isl. (Fernando Poo), So Tom, Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni), Gabon, Congo (Brazzaville), Central African Republic, D.R. Congo (Zaire), Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa (Limpopo, Gauteng, North West, Mpulamanga, KwaZulu-Natal), Swaziland, Comoros (Anjouan, Grande Comore), Madagascar, Seychelles, La Runion as per Catalogue of Life;
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Terrestrial herb with creeping rhizome, 2-2.5 cm thick, covered with short, dark brown hairs. Fronds 150-180 x 60-110 cm, tripinnate; stipe 50-100 cm long, grooved, strigose; lamina ovate to rhomboidal in outline; primary pinnae 25-50 x 9-15 cm, ovate-lanceolate in outline; secondary pinnae 5-10 x 1.5-2 cm lanceolate-acuminate in outline, 26 pairs; pinnules 1-1.5 x 0.5 cm, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse to retuse, lobed to serrate, subcoriaceous, glabrous to pubescent; costa grooved above, raised below, veins free, indistinct. Sori 0.5-2.2 mm in diameter, yellowish brown to orange-brown, at vein endings; indusia pouch-like. Sporangial capsule 187.5-250 x 187.5-225 µm globose to ellipsoid, stalk 375 µm long. Spores 26-37.5 x 26-37.5 µm, tetrahedral, triangular in distal view, granulose.
Moist deciduous, semi-evergreen and evergreen forests
(Attributions- K. P. Rajesh as per India Biodiversity Portal)
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Microlepia SN22420a : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) – 4 mb.
Microlepia speluncae (L.) Moore
Wild fern from Western Ghats Tamilnadu

Yes, it’s a pity, though, to illustrate such a really badly pressed specimen with pinnae all overlapping and folded over- it is an example of how NOT to prepare herbarium-specimens. Doesn’t anyone there teach how to prepate good specimens? You don’t just shove leaves in paper without spreading them out properly. Otherwise they become so hard to identify and to learn from.

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SK 3687 06 February 2023 – Fern: 5 very high res. images.

Location: Jalthal, Jhapa, East Nepal
Date: 03 January 2023
Elevation: 110 m.
Habitat: Wild

this is a Microlepia. Sir, v can you kindly tell me how to access the Pteridophytes on the efloraofindia site? I do not see them. I have been identifying photos for you for many years.

Regarding the Pteridophyte pages. Is there a way to see the images? Or a list of species? I only find the index to the families.

Keep on clicking, you reach upto the species level with posts and images inside them.

I have also added them on the home page

Microlepia may be speluncae since from low atitude.

looks good ID Microlepia speluncae (L.) T.Moore!

 

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