Thanks a lot, Chris ji
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With regards,
J. M. Garg
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From: Chris Fraser-Jenkins <>
Date: Sat, 2 Apr, 2022, 10:59 pm
Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:418681] MS,April,2022/02 Hemionitis bicolor ?
for id
To: J.M. Garg <[email protected]>
Dear Dr. Sawmiliana,
I'm afraid you may have been misled by the totally discredited M.
Christenhusz, who pushed Kew into accepting his POWO nonsense, before
leaving his new-found interference with fern classification.
This is nothing to do with the genus Hemionitis which does not occur in
India. That is about the same as calling Polystichum and Dryopteris all
Dryopteris! His placement of many cheilanthoid genera in Hemionitis went
against all morphological and molecular evidence and is widely considered
quite ridiculous, and all his misleading dabblings have been rejected by a
good joint paper in Taxon. Please do not try looking in POWO again - it
is a world-wide embarrassment for Kew where there is actually no
Pteridologist.
This is of course an Aleuritopteris. You are partly right in thinking it
similar to A. bicolor, but you will see that the scales at the base of the
stipe (not shown) are concoloous reddish colour and wider than the very
narrow bicolorous ones of A. bicolor. Also the stipe in yours is thicker
and the lowest pinnae are not as wide, or with such very long lowest
basiscopic pinnules as in A. bicolor.
It is actually the N.E. Indian species, Aleuritopteris subdimorpha, which
occurs from Nepal eastwards. Always a fern I like whenever I see it as it
is so characteristic, so very Subdimorpha!
A. bicolor can also be there, but is a lot more delicate and more finely
lobed - and the white farina beneath is not as thick and bright.
Best wishes,
Chris Fraser-Jenkins.
On Saturday, 2 April 2022, 14:50:20 BST, J.M. Garg <[email protected]>
wrote:
Thanks, Sawmliana ji
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With regards,
J. M. Garg
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From: *M Sawmliana* <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 2 Apr, 2022, 8:15 am
Subject: [efloraofindia:418681] MS,April,2022/02 Hemionitis bicolor ? for id
To: indiantreepix <[email protected]>
Location : Reiek, Mizoram
Altitude : 1,450 m
Date : 08-09-2015
Habit : Terrestrial fern
Habitat : Wild
With regards,
M.Sawmliana
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