• Family : THELYPTERIDACEAE
  (MARSH FERN FAMILY)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : THELYPTERIDACEAE
• Basionym : Polypodium dentatum Forssk.
• Synonym(s) : Christella dentata (Forssk.) Brownsey & Jermy; Christella malabariensis Holttum; Cyclosorus dentatus (Forssk.) Ching
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Christella dentata (Forssk.) Brownsey & Jermy
• Habit : Herb-Lithophyte
• Habitat : Semi-evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Common throughout Western Ghats, along roadsides and also planted in gardens. Occasional near edges of water and under shade.
• Fertile : May-November
• Collector(s) Name : C. J. Saldanha; Arun Singh R, K.R.K Swamy & Navendu Page
• Collection Date : 27/02/16
• Collection Nos : CS 4850; HJCB-0537
• Collection Locality : Kodaikanal; Berbera Forest, Khurda district, Odisha State
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Hassan district, Mysore district, Shimoga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Odisha : Similipal Hills (Mayurbhanj district), Berbera Forest (Khurda district), Bargarh district, Sambalpur district
  • Tamil Nadu : Kodaikanal (Dindigul district)
• World Distribution : Paleotropics
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Rajagopal & Bhat, Pteridophytic flora of Karnataka State- 1998; Manickam V.S & Irudayaraj V. (1992)- Pteridophyte flora of W.Ghats, South India; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976; H.O. Saxena and M. Brahmam. 1996. The Flora of Orissa, Vol-4; Subhash Chandra. The Ferns of India (Enumeration, Synonyms & Distribution). (2007). International Book Distributors
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Thelypteris dentata. Downloaded on 4 May 2024.

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