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Microlepia<\/i> speluncae<\/i> (L.) T. Moore, Index Fil. 93 1857<\/em>. (syn: Acrophorus jamaicensis<\/em> (Hook.) T.Moore; Alsophila grevilleana<\/em> Wall. (ambiguous synonym); Aspidium dicksoniifolium<\/em> A.Rich.; Aspidium puberum<\/em> Wall.; Aspidium speluncae<\/em> (L.) Willd.; Cystopteris aspidioides<\/em> C.Presl; Cystopteris orientalis<\/em> Desv.; Davallia divergens<\/em> Kunze; Davallia flaccida<\/em> R.Br. (ambiguous synonym); Davallia flaccida<\/em> var. pyramidata<\/i> C.B.Clarke; Davallia hirta<\/em> Wall. (ambiguous synonym); Davallia jamaicensis<\/em> Hook.; Davallia mollis<\/em> Kunze; Davallia padioides<\/em> Zoll.; Davallia pilosa<\/em> Roxb.; Davallia polypodioides<\/em> (Desv.) Hook. (ambiguous synonym); Davallia polypodioides<\/em> D.Don (ambiguous synonym); Davallia polypodioides<\/em> var. pubescens<\/i> Hook.; Davallia polypodioides<\/em> var. subglabra<\/i> Hook.; Davallia speluncae<\/em> (L.) Bak.; Davallia speluncae<\/em> var. trichosticha<\/i> (Hook.) Baker; Davallia subvolubilis<\/em> Kunze; Davallia trichosticha<\/em> Hook.; Davallia virens<\/em> Wall.; Dennstaedtia lindsayiformis<\/em> (F\u00e9e) C.Chr.; Dicksonia lessonii<\/em> Bory; Dicksonia multifida<\/em> Sw.; Dicksonia polypodioides<\/em> Sw.; Dryopteris asperula<\/em> (J.Sm. ex Hook.) C.Chr.; Dryopteris speluncae<\/em> (L.) Underw. ex Britton;\u00a0\u00a0Humata polypodioides<\/em> (Sw.) Desv. (ambiguous synonym); Microlepia aspidioides<\/em> C.Presl; Microlepia flaccida<\/em> (R.Br.) J.Sm. (ambiguous synonym); Microlepia ganlanbaensis<\/em> Ching; Microlepia hispidula<\/em> Alderw.; Microlepia jamaicensis<\/em> (Hook.) F\u00e9e; Microlepia lindsayiformis<\/em> F\u00e9e; Microlepia mollis<\/em> Moore (ambiguous synonym); Microlepia multifida<\/em> C.Presl; Microlepia pilosula<\/em> Prantl (ambiguous synonym); Microlepia pingpienensis<\/em> Ching; Microlepia polypodioides<\/em> (Desv.) C.Presl (ambiguous synonym); Microlepia pyramidata<\/em> (Wall. ex C.B.Cl.) Lacaita; Microlepia rhomboidea<\/em> J.Sm. (ambiguous synonym); Microlepia sablanensis<\/em> Christ; Microlepia speluncae<\/em> var. pubescens<\/i> (Hook.) Sledge; Microlepia speluncae<\/em> var. pyramidata<\/i> (C.B.Cl.) Tard. & C.Chr.; Microlepia speluncae<\/em> var. villosissima<\/i> C.Chr.; Microlepia stenoloba<\/em> Prantl; Microlepia straminea<\/em> Ching; Microlepia subrhomboidea<\/em> Ching; Microlepia subspeluncae<\/em> Ching; Microlepia subvolubilis<\/em> Moore; Microlepia trichosticha<\/em> (Hook.) J.Sm. ex Copel.; Microlepia trichosticha<\/em> (Hook.) J.Sm. ex F\u00e9e; Microlepia trichosticha<\/em> J.Sm.; Polypodium asperulum<\/em> J.Sm. ex Hook.; Polypodium nudum<\/em> Forst. (ambiguous synonym); Polypodium speluncae<\/em> L.; Scyphofilix speluncae<\/em> (L.) Farw.);
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\nTropics & 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, R\u00e9union, 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, Za\u00efre, Zimbabwe<\/span> as per POWO<\/a>;<\/div>\n
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Terrestrial herb<\/span> 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 \u00b5m globose to ellipsoid, stalk 375 \u00b5m long. Spores 26-37.5 x 26-37.5 \u00b5m, tetrahedral, triangular in distal view, granulose.
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\n<\/span>(Attributions- K. P. Rajesh as per <\/span>India Biodiversity Portal<\/span><\/a>)
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Microlepia SN22420a<\/a> : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1<\/span>)<\/span> – 4 mb.
\nMicrolepia speluncae<\/em> (L.) Moore
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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.\u00a0Doesn’t anyone there teach how to prepate good specimens?\u00a0You don’t just shove leaves in paper without spreading them out properly. Otherwise they become so hard to identify and to learn from.<\/p>\n

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\nSK 3687 06 February 2023 – Fern<\/a>: 5 very high res. images.<\/p>\n

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Location: Jalthal, Jhapa, East Nepal<\/span><\/div>\n
Date: 03 January 2023<\/span><\/div>\n
Elevation: 110 m.<\/span>
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this is a Microlepia.<\/em> Sir, v can you kindly tell me how to access the Pteridophytes<\/em> on the efloraofindia site? I do not see them. I have been identifying photos for you for many years.<\/p>\n

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Regarding\u00a0the Pteridophyte pages. Is there a way to see the images? Or a list of species? I only find the index to the families.<\/p>\n

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Keep on clicking, you reach upto the species level with posts and images inside them.<\/p>\n

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I have also added them on the home page<\/p>\n

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Microlepia<\/em> may be speluncae<\/em> since from low atitude.<\/p>\n

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looks good ID\u00a0Microlepia speluncae\u00a0<\/i>(L.) T.Moore!<\/p>\n

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References:
\n<\/span>POWO<\/a> \u00a0Catalogue of Life<\/a>\u00a0 The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Tropicos<\/a> \u00a0IPNI<\/a> \u00a0Flora of China<\/a>\u00a0 FOC illustration<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0FOC illustration 2<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Flora of Zimbabwe<\/a>\u00a0 Native Plants Hawaii – Viewing Plant<\/a>\u00a0 PROSEA<\/a>\u00a0 plantinfo<\/a>\u00a0 capriviflora<\/a>\u00a0 Ferns of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[6403],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1272342","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-microlepia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1272342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1272342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1272342"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1272342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}