• Family : PTERIDACEAE
  (MAIDENHAIR FERN FAMILY)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PTERIDACEAE
• Basionym : Pteris concolor Langsd. & Fisch.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Doryopteris concolor (Langsd. & Fisch.) Kuhn
• Habit : Herb-Terrestrial
• Comments / notes : Occasional on damp hills under shade and on road cuttings along ghats.
• Fertile : October-February
• Collector(s) Name : F. M. Jarrett & C. J. Saldanha; K.Sankara Rao, Arun Singh, K.R.K.Swamy & Navendu Page
• Collection Date : 25/03/2016; 09/09/1970
• Collection Nos : HFP 706, HJCB-0674
• Collection Locality : Bababudan hills, Chickmagalur; Kolli Hills, Tamil Nadu
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Bangalore district, Kodagu district, Mysore district, Chikamagalur district, Hassan district
  • Odisha : Koraput district, Mahendragiri Hills (Ganjam district)
  • Tamil Nadu : Sirumalai Hills, (Dindigul district), Kolli Hills (Namakkal district)
• World Distribution : Pantropical
• Conservation Status : Rare (R)
• Literature : Fraser-Jenkins, Taxonomic revision of Indian Subcontinental Pteridophytes 2008; Manickam V.S & Irudayaraj V. (1992)- Pteridophyte flora of W.Ghats, South India; H.O. Saxena and M. Brahmam. 1996. The Flora of Orissa, Vol-4
• 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=Doryopteris concolor. Downloaded on 8 May 2024.

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