This species is very common in South Kerala Vijayadas
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:02 PM, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > A reply: > "Unfortunately this is rather a lot of muddling up! First Cheilanthes (or > now commonly Aleuritopteris) argentea is NOT the Indian "silver fern" - so > far it has only turned up as a great rarity, discovered recently by that > Fraser-Jenkins fellow at high-altitude in N. Nepal and N. Bhutan - it is > otherwise a Chinese and E. Siberian species. > It is not "The" silver fern - there are some 12 different silver ferns and > two gold ferns in India, of which A. farinosa is also not one (confined to > Africa and S. Arabia). Common species are A. bicolor, A. formosana, A. > anceps, A. albomarginata etc. - one must see the distribution of scales to > identify them. > Finally this is not a Cheilanthes at all, but is the common Pityrogramma > calomelanos, not widespread in India, but actually a rather recent mostly > early 20th Century adventive species from South America. It has a quite > different frond-shape from the Aleuritopteris species. > Many problems like this could be solved by referring to Prof. Khullar's > most important contribution, the Illustrated Fern Flora of the West > Himalaya, and further details are in many other books and papers, > includiing some of mine. > Best wishes, > Chris F.-J., R.B.G., Edinburgh." > > On 3 November 2012 19:04, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id confirmation please. >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Karuna Das <[email protected]> >> Date: 29 October 2012 16:40 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:136636] Siver fern - [Cheilanthes argentea >> (Gmel.) Kunze] from Guwahati. >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: [email protected] >> >> >> Dear All, >> Attached images are Silver fern [ Cheilanthes argentea (Gmel.) >> Kunze]collected from Chokordow Hill (Guwahati-17). >> >> Date :28/10/2012 >> Location: Chokordow, Guwahati-17 [Dist- Kamrup(Metro)] >> Habitat: Grows on hill slopes >> Sori : Silver coloured >> Rhizome : present >> Scales on the rhizome : Not examined >> >> With regards >> Karuna Kanta Das >> Guwahati 781012 >> >> >> >> <http://sigads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx.ads/www.rediffmail.com/signatureline.htm@Middle?> >> Catch India as it happens with the *Rediff News App*. To download it for >> FREE, click >> here<http://track.rediff.com/click?url=___http://www.rediff.com/newsapp___&lnk=signature&newservice=newsapp> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& >> eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged >> alphabetically & place-wise): >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use >> them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: >> http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2000 members & >> 1,37,000 messages on 31/10/12) or Efloraofindia website: >> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database >> of more than 7500 species). >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> >> > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2000 members & > 1,37,000 messages on 31/10/12) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 7500 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > -- *Vijayadas **Trivandrum* *Kerala* ** ** ** ** *Do not judge a person by his looks, Go deeper into the heart; only then you can understand him better.* --
