{"id":1416273,"date":"2011-03-22T05:34:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T05:34:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:50:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:20:14","slug":"lepisorus-scolopendrium","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/lepisorus-scolopendrium\/","title":{"rendered":"Lepisorus scolopendrium"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lepisorus scolopendrium<\/em> (Ching) Mehra & Bir, Res. Bull. Punjab Univ., New Ser., Sci. 15: 168 (1964)<\/em> (syn: Lepisorus excavatus<\/em>\u00a0var.\u00a0himalayensis<\/em>\u00a0Bir & Trikha<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Lepisorus excavatus<\/em>\u00a0var.\u00a0mortonianus<\/em>\u00a0Bir & Trikha<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Lepisorus himalayensis<\/em>\u00a0(Bir & Trikha) Khullar & Pangtey<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Lepisorus kumaonensis<\/em>\u00a0Kholia, Bhakuni, R.Punetha & Bankoti<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Lepisorus mortonianus<\/em>\u00a0(Bir & Trikha) Khullar<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Lepisorus scolopendrium<\/em>\u00a0var.\u00a0himalayensis<\/em>\u00a0(Bir & Trikha) Pangtey & Punetha<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Lepisorus virescens<\/em>\u00a0Ching & S.K.Wu<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Pleopeltis excavata<\/em>\u00a0var.\u00a0himalayensis<\/em>\u00a0(Bir & Trikha) Benl<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Pleopeltis excavata<\/em>\u00a0var.\u00a0mortonianus<\/em>\u00a0(Bir & Trikha) Benl<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Pleopeltis himalayensis<\/em>\u00a0(Bir & Trikha) \u00c1.L\u00f6ve & D.L\u00f6ve<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Pleopeltis mortonianus<\/em>\u00a0(Bir & Trikha) \u00c1.L\u00f6ve & D.L\u00f6ve<\/a>;\u00a0<\/span>Lepisorus excavatus<\/em>\u00a0var.\u00a0scolopendrium<\/em>\u00a0Ching<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Pleopeltis scolopendrium<\/em>\u00a0(Ching) Alston & Bonner<\/a> ;\u00a0<\/span>Polypodium scolopendrium<\/em>\u00a0Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don<\/a> );<\/span><\/div>\n
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Himalaya to S. China and Indo-China: Assam, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Hainan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet, West Himalaya<\/span> as per POWO<\/a>;
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\nIs it a Fern, Uttarakhand (180609SCS1) – indiantreepix | Google Groups<\/span><\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n

I came across just one specimen during my week-long trip.<\/div>\n
Badrinath, Uttarakhand, June 09.<\/span><\/div>\n
Looks like a fern species ?<\/p>\n
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I think this is pteridophyte Pleopeltis<\/em><\/p>\n

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Pteridophyte pleopeltis<\/em> shown at\u00a0flickr.com\/photos\/alan_cressler\/2253529292\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is quite different from the one I had posted.<\/p>\n

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The pteridophytes are vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that neither flower nor produce seeds, hence they are called vascular cryptogams. Instead, they reproduce and disperse only via spores as per link:\u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pteridophyte<\/a>
\nWhile Pleopeltis is the genus, which includes many species, including Pleopeltis polypodioides as stated in your link, as per link:\u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pleopeltis<\/a><\/p>\n

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Did you take a close-up pix of the yellow spots on the rocks in the background in both the pix. Appears to be rust\/fungus. ID anyone.<\/p>\n

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Yes! It is Lepisorus scolopendrium<\/em>, Polypodiaceae,<\/em> very common throughout the Indo Himalaya.<\/div>\n
You can just see the round raised spots above and towards the tips of the fronds, where the young sori are just beginning to develop on the underside.<\/span><\/p>\n
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References:
\nPOWO<\/a>\u00a0 Catalogue of Life<\/a>\u00a0 GBIF<\/a> (High resolution specimens) Flora of China<\/a>\u00a0 FOC illustration<\/a> Research Gate\u00a0illustration<\/a>\u00a0 fernsoftheworld<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lepisorus scolopendrium (Ching) Mehra & Bir, Res. Bull. Punjab Univ., New Ser., Sci. 15: 168 (1964) (syn: Lepisorus excavatus\u00a0var.\u00a0himalayensis\u00a0Bir & Trikha ;\u00a0Lepisorus excavatus\u00a0var.\u00a0mortonianus\u00a0Bir & Trikha ;\u00a0Lepisorus himalayensis\u00a0(Bir & Trikha) Khullar & Pangtey ;\u00a0Lepisorus kumaonensis\u00a0Kholia, Bhakuni, R.Punetha & Bankoti ;\u00a0Lepisorus mortonianus\u00a0(Bir & Trikha) Khullar ;\u00a0Lepisorus scolopendrium\u00a0var.\u00a0himalayensis\u00a0(Bir & Trikha) Pangtey & Punetha…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[6379],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1416273","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-leptochilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1416273","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=1416273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1416273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1416273"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1416273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}