{"id":1394132,"date":"2016-05-12T07:39:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T07:39:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:24:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:54:52","slug":"selliguea-montana","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/selliguea-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"Selliguea montana"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Selliguea<\/i> montana<\/i> (Sledge) Hovenkamp, Rev. Handb. Fl. Ceylon 15(Part B): 344\u2013345 2006<\/em>. (syn: Phymatodes montana<\/em>\u00a0(Sledge) Bir & Devi<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Crypsinus montanus<\/em>\u00a0Sledge<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Phymatopsis montana<\/em>\u00a0(Sledge) Ching<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Phymatopteris montana<\/em>\u00a0(Sledge) Pic.Serm.<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Selliguea hastata<\/em>\u00a0subsp.\u00a0montana<\/em>\u00a0(Sledge) Fraser-Jenk. & Ranil<\/a> );<\/span>
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46-TSP-ID-27APR2016-2:Epiphytic fern from Mullaianagiri for ID<\/a> : 10 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Kindly identify this fern.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Habit: Herb<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Habitat: Wild, terrestrial, Montane forest fringe<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sighting: Mullaianagiri, Chikmagalur, Karnataka, about 1600 msl<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Date: 18-06-2015<\/span><\/p>\n

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Probably <\/span>Crypsinus hastatus<\/em>\/ <\/span>Selliguea hasata<\/em> but difficult to identify by picture. The body plan is similar in many species of <\/span>Crypsinus<\/em>. like <\/span>C. oxyloba<\/em> of Himalaya, <\/span>C. laciniata, C.scolopendra<\/em> etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I have seen the fern, you collected from Mullayagiri hills. Actually that is <\/span>Phymatopteris<\/em> genus. It looks like <\/span>Phymatopteris strecheyii<\/em> but i will confirm you the species name later. <\/span>If you feel any query you may write me.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The pictures you sent of an epiphyte fern looks to be species of <\/span>Phmatopteris<\/em>! Can you send its fertile frond (leaf). On the back the fern bears sporangia, the fertile part. Please send for identity.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As per The Plant List Ver. 1.1, Selliguea<\/i> hastata<\/i> (Thunb.) H. Ohashi & K. Ohashi is the accepted name with <\/span>Phymatopsis<\/i> hastata<\/i> (Thunb.) Kitag. ex H. It\u00f4<\/span><\/a> & <\/span>Selliguea<\/span><\/i> hastata<\/span><\/i> (Thunb.) Fraser-Jenk.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0as syn.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As you may know, the genus <\/span>Phymatopteris<\/em> was rightly sunk into <\/span>Selliguea<\/em> (its type is a simple-leaved species without teeth or notches) and no longer pertains – its former species have either been placed all into <\/span>Selliguea<\/em>, or partly in <\/span>Selliguea<\/em> and partly in <\/span>Pichisermollodes<\/em> – it is a matter of personal preference which choice you make (I prefer the latter option). The Flora of China was seriously out of date on it and also politically tinged.
\n<\/span>Selliguea oxyloba<\/em> does not occur at all in South India – its only specimen from there was a report by Bir from Kodaikanal, but though the specimen is indeed <\/span>oxyloba<\/em> it is one of the number of specimens collected in the Himalaya and confusedly reported by Bir from Kodaikanal in his paper – as discovered by Father Manickam and later by me.
\n<\/span>Your photo is presumably Selliguea montana<\/em>, which is a good species, not the same as S. hastata<\/em> as I thought previously. This species has tiny notches here and there in the marginal thickening, visible with a hand lens<\/span> – unlike S. oxyloba<\/em>, which is entire.<\/span> Could you confirm that?\u00a0<\/span> Both S.<\/em> montana<\/em> and S. oxyloba<\/em> are immediately distinguishable from the other Indian species by their decurrent laminar bases at the base of the rachis\/top of the stipe.
\n<\/span>Several of the species mentioned by other respondents don’t occur in South India – one needs to be accurate in these matters and not just guess.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yes, you can see the marginal notches – <\/span>Selliguea montana<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n<\/span>POWO<\/a> \u00a0The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a> \u00a0Tropicos<\/a> \u00a0IPNI<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Selliguea montana (Sledge) Hovenkamp, Rev. Handb. Fl. Ceylon 15(Part B): 344\u2013345 2006. (syn: Phymatodes montana\u00a0(Sledge) Bir & Devi ;\u00a0Crypsinus montanus\u00a0Sledge ;\u00a0Phymatopsis montana\u00a0(Sledge) Ching ;\u00a0Phymatopteris montana\u00a0(Sledge) Pic.Serm. ;\u00a0Selliguea hastata\u00a0subsp.\u00a0montana\u00a0(Sledge) Fraser-Jenk. & Ranil ); . S. India, Sri Lanka as per POWO; . 46-TSP-ID-27APR2016-2:Epiphytic fern from Mullaianagiri for ID : 10 posts…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[8525],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1394132","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-selliguea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1394132","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=1394132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1394132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1394132"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1394132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}