Ophioglossum sporangium

[shubhada nikharge]

Hi,
I had taken these pics at Conservation Education Centre, Goregaon, Mumbai exactly one year ago and Dr. Swapna Prabhu from BNHS had identified it as Ophioglossum sporangium.
Cheers,
Shubhada


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[Pankaj Kumar]

Just wanted to say, sporophyte is deformed, but wanted to know if the
particular species has more than one leaf. Never seen multiple leaves
in Ophioglossum before.
Pankaj

[Bhatt Sweta]

same question here,

[tanay bose]

may be not a genotypic alteration!

Tanay

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[JM Garg]

[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding again for Id assistance please.

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[J.M. Garg]

Thanks a lot, Chris ji

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From: Chris Fraser-Jenkins <>
Date: Sun, 9 Apr, 2023, 17:53
Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:445588] Fwd: Ophioglossum sporangium
To: J.M. Garg <jmg...@gmail.com>

Yes, it is certainly the fertile spike of an Ophioglossum.    Just to make it clear, Ophioglossum sporangium is not a species or species' name, it means the sporangium of a fern, i.e. the little containers of the spores.

In this photo each of the little knobbles running along the spike is an individual sporangium and when they are ripe they develop a split and shrink a bit so the spores can come out and be dispersed by the wind.

But to identify the species, one needs to see a number of the leaflike sterile blades from which the spikes stick up.  Without that no one can guess which species it is except quite often from the detailed s.e.m. images of the spore surfaces.

Did you make any photos of the sterile blades down beneath the spike?

Best wishes,

    Chris Fraser Jenkins..