{"id":1272408,"date":"2020-04-27T04:21:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T04:21:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T11:32:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T06:02:17","slug":"aleuritopteris-anceps","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/aleuritopteris-anceps\/","title":{"rendered":"Aleuritopteris anceps"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aleuritopteris<\/i> anceps<\/i> (Blanf.) Panigrahi, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 2(3\u20134): 321 1961<\/em>. (syn: Aleuritopteris calicicola<\/em> Ching; Aleuritopteris farinosa<\/em> var. anceps<\/i> (Blanf.) Ching; Aleuritopteris javanensis<\/em> Saiki; Aleuritopteris pseudofarinosa<\/em> Ching & S.K.Wu; Aleuritopteris pseudofarinosa<\/em> var. glandulosa<\/i> H.G.Zhou; Aleuritopteris rigidula<\/em> Saiki; Aleuritopteris wuyishanensis<\/em> Ching; Cheilanthes anceps<\/em> Blanf.; Cheilanthes candida<\/em> Zoll. (ambiguous synonym); Cheilanthes farinosa<\/em> var. anceps<\/i> (Blanf.) Blanf.; Cheilanthes pseudofarinosa<\/em> (Ching & S.K.Wu) K.Iwats.; Hemionitis anceps<\/em> (Blanf.) Christenh.);
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\nTropical & Subtropical Asia: Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, West Himalaya<\/span> as per POWO<\/a> (Hemionitis anceps<\/strong> (Blanf.) Christenh.):<\/div>\n
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China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Tibet, Nepal, India (Assam State, Chandigarh, ?Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, West Bengal), Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar [Burma], <\/span>Thailand, Java, Jammu & Kashmir (Ladakh, Kashmir), Pakistan,<\/span> Lesser Sunda Isl. (Bali, Lombok, Timor) <\/span>as per Catalogue of Life<\/span><\/a>;<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nAleuritopteris anceps ? bicolor ?<\/a>: 6 images.
\nDate\/Time-15 Jan 2022
\n<\/span>Location- South-west Maharashtra, Western Ghat hills.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Habitat-\u00a0Wild. In a waterfall.
\n<\/span>Plant Habit- Lithophytic Herb. Single.
\n<\/span><\/span>Height-30cm.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Leaves- Lamina is triangular. Brown scales, present on stipe and lower part of rachis. Rest of rachis is glabrous.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Aleuritopteris anceps<\/em> – you can read in various places about the difference from bicolor.\u00a0 E.g. A. anceps<\/em> has broader scales that extend up to the top of the stipe,<\/span> bicolor<\/em> has very narrow ones confined ro the stipe-base (scales bicolorous in both)..\u00a0 anceps has a triangular frond,<\/span><\/span> bicolor<\/em> has a pentagonal one (because the lowest pinnule is abruptly longer).<\/span> anceps has a thick stipe,<\/span> bicolor has a thin one etc. etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cheilanthes argentea SN21420<\/a> : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1<\/span>)<\/span> – 3 mb.
\nCheilanthes argentea<\/em><\/span>\u00a0(S.G.Gmel) Kunze, Linnaea wild fern from Western Ghats<\/span> Tamilnadu<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Oh dear – this really is completely misguided and totally mistaken!\u00a0 Wrong genus, wrong species.\u00a0I really think one must update and improve the identification and naming while posting specimens (often bad quality ones like this that show nothing to enable an identification), and revise these regressive old-style names that are completely out of touch with modern botany.<\/div>\n
\u00a0 First the genus – while in previous times all cheilanthoid ferns were simply called Cheilanthes<\/em>, nearly everyone nowadays recognises the genus Aleuritopteris<\/em> for these farinose ones – also supported molecularly. So may I suggest Aleuritopteris<\/em>, instead of Cheilanthes<\/em>?<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0Secondly the species, A. argentea<\/em> is a high-altitude to temperate species of China, Korea, Japan and Tibet (plus one locality at 3000 m in the dry inner Himalaya in Central Nepal and another locality in a similar region in Bhutan). It is not present in peninsular India, nor in the usual Indo-Himalayan region.<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0There is a lot of accurate Botanical literature on Indian Aleuritopteris – but presumably the poster has not heard of any of it.\u00a0For Aleuritopteris<\/em> one needs to see the distribution of the scales on the back of the frond – stipe, rachis and costae – but this is not shown.\u00a0It is also a terrible specimen – all scrumpled up as the collector did not bother to soak it out flat in a bucket of water before pressing. Totally inadequate!<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 As I happen to have specilaised in the genus I can recognise that it is the common Aleuritopteris anceps<\/em>, the usual one in South India, and not the other common South Indian one, A. bullosa<\/em>.\u00a0But what’s the use of a specimen so bad as this – or the use of posting it?<\/div>\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> \u00a0GBIF<\/a> (High resolution specimens) Flora of China<\/a>\u00a0 FOC illustration<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0FOC illustration 2<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 FOC illustration 3<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 Flora of peninsular India<\/a>\u00a0 Pteridophyte Collections Consortium<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aleuritopteris anceps (Blanf.) Panigrahi, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 2(3\u20134): 321 1961. (syn: Aleuritopteris calicicola Ching; Aleuritopteris farinosa var. anceps (Blanf.) Ching; Aleuritopteris javanensis Saiki; Aleuritopteris pseudofarinosa Ching & S.K.Wu; Aleuritopteris pseudofarinosa var. glandulosa H.G.Zhou; Aleuritopteris rigidula Saiki; Aleuritopteris wuyishanensis Ching; Cheilanthes anceps Blanf.; Cheilanthes candida Zoll. (ambiguous synonym); Cheilanthes farinosa…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[6415],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1272408","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-aleuritopteris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1272408","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=1272408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1272408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1272408"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1272408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}