on the way to the waterfalls.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\nChristella normalis<\/em>?<\/span>
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\nFor nearly all ferns one must see the frond-base, not just upper halves as in so many field photos.\u00a0 It is one of the reasons why a herbarium-specimen photo is often better.\u00a0 For
Thelypteris<\/em> species, one also needs to know how the rhizome was, thick-erect with fronds together; thick horizontal, fronds together at apex; or thin long-creeping with fronds separate.\u00a0 This I can’t see in the photo.<\/div>\nHowever, I can just see the decreasing basal pinnae in one of the central fronds.\u00a0 Enough to confirm the general impression that it is
Thelypteris (Christella) dentata.<\/em><\/div>\nIf so, it should have a horizontal, thickish rhizome, with fronds together at one end; the basal pair or two pairs of veinlets between each pinna-lobe should anastomose beneath the sinus between lobes and the lower-surface of the costa should have rather obvious scattered stiff hairs, not very long.<\/div>\n
But in south India