{"id":1414519,"date":"2012-09-29T16:46:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T16:46:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:42:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:12:48","slug":"adiantum-venustum","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/adiantum-venustum\/","title":{"rendered":"Adiantum venustum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Adiantum<\/i> venustum<\/i> D. Don, <\/span>Prodr<\/span>. Fl. Nepal. 17 17 1825<\/em>. (syn: Adiantum argutum<\/em>\u00a0C.Presl ex Ettingsh.<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Adiantum bonatianum<\/em>\u00a0Brause<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Adiantum bonatianum<\/em>\u00a0var.\u00a0subaristatum<\/em>\u00a0Ching<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Adiantum breviserratum<\/em>\u00a0(Ching) Ching & Y.X.Lin<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Adiantum fimbriatum<\/em>\u00a0Christ<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Adiantum fimbriatum<\/em>\u00a0var.\u00a0shensiense<\/em>\u00a0(Ching) Ching & Y.X.Lin<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Adiantum microphyllum<\/em>\u00a0Roxb.<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Adiantum smithianum<\/em>\u00a0(C.Chr.) Ching<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Adiantum smithianum<\/em>\u00a0var.\u00a0shensiense<\/em>\u00a0Ching<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Adiantum venustum<\/em>\u00a0var.\u00a0breviserratum<\/em>\u00a0Ching<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Adiantum venustum<\/em>\u00a0var.\u00a0smithianum<\/em>\u00a0C.Chr.<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Adiantum venustum<\/em>\u00a0var.\u00a0wuliangense<\/em>\u00a0Ching & Y.X.Lin<\/a>);<\/span><\/div>\n
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VoF Week : MN050912 Fern for ID:<\/a>
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I hope Adiantum capillus-veneris<\/em><\/p>\n

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The images which have been attached are of different types, isn’t ?\u00a0but not A. capillus-veneris<\/em>, clarification needed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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…\u00a0not this is not Adiantum capillus-veneris<\/em>, but belongs to much better species, the higher Himalayan A. venustum<\/em> agg.
\nI’m having a little difficulty to see if it is A. venustum<\/em> itself or A. tibeticum<\/em> as only frond-apices have been photographed – I need to see the whole frond.
\nThe fertile frond looks like typical venustum, which has a larger frond with narrower segments and narrower teeth – but I can’t really see the teeth easily – and how big the frond it – but I’m pretty well certain it is true A. venustum <\/em>all the same.
\nThe sterile one shows rather wide teeth (does it?), perhaps a bit more like the closely related A. tibeticum<\/em>, but again I can’t see how big the frond is. But perhaps it, too, might be venustum<\/em> – I’d have to see it more carefully and more in precise focus. Were they both off the very same plant?<\/p>\n

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THIS IMAGE IS CERTAINLY NOT ADIANTUM CAPILLUS-VENERIS. IT IS ADIANTUM VENUSTUM<\/em> (4x). COULD ALSO BE A TIBETICUM <\/em>(OR A. VENUSTUM<\/em> SUBSP. TIBETICUM
\n<\/em>THIS IS A SEGGREGATE OF A? VENUSTUM(8x).”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Incidentally, it is usually easy to distinguish Adiantum venustum<\/em> from A. tibeticum<\/em>, which is why the latter as described as a species, not subspecies, which I personally prefer to maintain (as with other species in that group, like A. davidii<\/em> etc.). Some previous confusion led to perceived difficulty in telling them apart.
\nIn this case, difficulty lies in the inadequate photographs, rather than any overlap of the two species.
\nSo are they the same plant or not? – As someone says, they do look a bit as if they might be off different plants, though difficult to see.<\/p>\n

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Since it is difficult to say with any amount of assurance to which species they belong to, unless the altitude and size of the fronds are mentioned, to guess (?) the name of the species even by experts of the stature of …, why have them as two species?
\nWhy not treat these as A. venustum subsp. tibeticum and the other as sub sp venustum. What’s wrong with this treatment?<\/p>\n

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As … says – there is nothing WRONG with deciding to lower them in rank – it is everyone’s choice as to what to do. However I believe the statement that it is difficult to identify them [and without knowing altitude] does not reflect reality. They are normally immediately and easily identifiable – as I mentioned before. This is why A. tibeticum <\/em>was recognised as a species by Lin, You-Shin, who is a competent pteridologist and specialist in Adiantum<\/em> – and it appears rather obviously sufficiently distinct to be more appropriately and practically ranked as a recognisable species. It was only that the two photos were inadequate that made these particular photos difficult to identify (and we still don’t know if the two were the same plant or not!). True, frond-size in a full-sized specimen is important, but nearly all the other diagnostic features have been ignored by that statement.
\nThe reason for confusion there is that in his previous accounts\u00a0… had the descriptions and names transposed, and on my pointing this out, the next mention had partly mixed characters. This was why they may have seemed to be more difficult to identify than they actually are. The characters are easy and I can usually spot them from a distance. Let’s have it the right way round and clear now – I think that would be the most helpful thing to do – as a summary:.
\nA. venustum <\/em>– large, more erect and more herbaceous frond (usually 30-40 cm. when full grown), with many pinnae and masses of segments; segments smaller, narrower, often rather asymmetrical, teeth at the apices long, narrow, markedly flabellate [but as there are some fronds where the teeth don’t develop properly, one then needs to look at another frond where they are properly developed]. More of a high-forest species.
\n<\/span>A. tibeticum<\/em> – small, stiffer frond (usually up to c. 20 cm. when full grown), with few pinnae and not an abundance of segments; segments larger, obviously wider, usually symmetrical, teeth at the apices acute but with wide bases, so rather widely deltate, thus not appearing flabellate. Usually above the forest line among rocks.
\n<\/span> One has to be careful about the occasional fronds that occur in A. venustum<\/em> where the teeth don’t develop much – but one can then find them better on another frond of the specimen. Sometimes they get even narrower and longer than usual in some populations of A. venustum<\/em> (described as A. fimbriatum<\/em>, a synonym of A. venustum<\/em>) and are then very easily recognisable.
\nOne comes across A. venustum<\/em> much more commonly in the Central Himalaya (Pithoragarh to Sikkim), with A. tibeticum<\/em> rare and right up on the edge of the dry inner-Himalayan zone – but in the West Himalaya and in the dry zones of the NE in Bhutan, A. tibeticum<\/em> is more common or equally common to A. venustum<\/em>.
\nHope this helps to clarify them. There are about 4 or 5 species in the whole A. venustum<\/em> group – but so far I can only recognise these two in the Indo-Himalaya though I have seen all the relevant herbaria for Indian ferns and plodded all over the Himalaya.<\/p>\n

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Fwd: Adiantum venustum in cultivation in New York Botanical Garden?<\/a> : 2 posts by 1 author. Attachments (1)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I came across this\u00a0fern growing in shady parts of the rockery<\/span> of the New York Botanic Garden.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
It is grown as Adiantum venustum<\/em>. Is this correct?\u00a0 It seemed to be cultivated quite widely in the US (Northern states that is).<\/div>\n
Excuse the poor quality photo but it might provide sufficient detail to be reliably named by the group’s fern expert.<\/div>\n
As to other Adiantum<\/em> spp., Stewart took a serious interest in ferns and covers these in his ‘An Annotated Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Pakistan & Kashmir’ – there have been major advances taxonomically and nomenclaturally in the past 50+ years since this was published (many<\/div>\n
down to this group’s fern expert).<\/div>\n
Stewart listed A.aethiopicum<\/em> from Kurram Valley @ 1800m; A.capillus-veneris<\/em> as the commonest and most widespread of the genus.\u00a0He considered in the plains it was often found on the inner walls of wells and on the banks of watercourses, whilst Koelz found it at 3750m in Ladakh; A.incisum<\/em> as common in the plains to 1500m; A.pedatum<\/em> – common in\u00a0Kishenganga valley @ 1800-2400m and in rich forest loam in Kashmir @ 2100-3000m;<\/span> A.vensutum<\/em> – in N.Pakistan & Kashmir @ 1800-2700m (occasionally to 3600m), one of the commonest ferns.
\n<\/span>I wonder what the current thinking is about the genus?\u00a0 I see there are no images of <\/span>A.pedatum<\/em> on the site or has this name been relegated to a synonym?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Yes, I reckon that is <\/span>A. venustum<\/em> – as opposed to the related <\/span>A. tibeticum<\/em>.\u00a0 <\/span>It has the narrower segments and longer, narrower teeth characteristic of A. venustum<\/em> sensu stricto.\u00a0 It should also develop a larger fronds with more segments<\/span> than in A. tibeticum<\/em><\/span> and is more of a woodland species.\u00a0Both are grown commonly in N. American and British gardens.
\n<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 In general <\/span>Adiantum<\/em> in India is one of the more stable genera with fewer critical taxa and less revision needed.\u00a0 <\/span>A. pedatum<\/em> is here and extends further west than the related A. myriosorum<\/em>.
\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Recent treatments are in my 2008 book Taxonomic Revision etc. and in Nepal vol 1 (2015), and the full Indian situation is in the forthcoming Annotated Checklist of Indian Pteridophytes Part 1 (in press 2016).\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>A aethiopicum<\/em> was a mistake – not present in Asia.\u00a0 A. capillus-veneris <\/em>is everywhere!\u00a0 There are also some widespread New World adventives.\u00a0 15 native species, 8 adventives or widely cutivated in India, and various subspecies.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Adiantum venustum D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 17 17 1825. (syn: Adiantum argutum\u00a0C.Presl ex Ettingsh. ;\u00a0Adiantum bonatianum\u00a0Brause ;\u00a0Adiantum bonatianum\u00a0var.\u00a0subaristatum\u00a0Ching ;\u00a0Adiantum breviserratum\u00a0(Ching) Ching & Y.X.Lin ;\u00a0Adiantum fimbriatum\u00a0Christ ;\u00a0Adiantum fimbriatum\u00a0var.\u00a0shensiense\u00a0(Ching) Ching & Y.X.Lin ;\u00a0Adiantum microphyllum\u00a0Roxb. ;\u00a0Adiantum smithianum\u00a0(C.Chr.) Ching ;\u00a0Adiantum smithianum\u00a0var.\u00a0shensiense\u00a0Ching ;\u00a0Adiantum venustum\u00a0var.\u00a0breviserratum\u00a0Ching ;\u00a0Adiantum venustum\u00a0var.\u00a0smithianum\u00a0C.Chr. ;\u00a0Adiantum venustum\u00a0var.\u00a0wuliangense\u00a0Ching & Y.X.Lin); . Afghanistan to W….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[6362],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1414519","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-adiantum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1414519","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=1414519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1414519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1414519"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1414519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}