Tectaria fuscipes (Tectariaceae, Pteridophytd), a New Record for Southern India

摘要

Tectaria fuscipes (Wall, ex Bedd.) C. Chr. (Tectariaceae) is reported for the first time from Castle Rock, Forest of Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka, southern India. Previous south Indian records referred to the rather similar species, Tectaria paradoxa. Synonymy, description, range and phytogeographical details of Tectaria fuscipes are given, and a key to the species of south India.Indian pteridophytes have been studied by various pteridologists viz., Beddome (1884), Dixit (1984), Fraser-Jenkins (1997), Chandra (2000), Ghosh et. al.(2004) and Fraser-Jenkins (2008). It consists of approximately 1000 species of pteridophytes belonging to 35 families and192 genera (Chandra 2000). Most of the pteridophyte diversity is observed in the Himalayas, Eastern and Western Ghats. The south Indian pteridophytes were studied by Blatter and d'Almedia (1922), Naiknaware (1984), Manickum and Irudayaraj (1992), Jadhav (2011), Patil (2012) and Mahamuni (2012).