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Abhilash Damodaran

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Dec 8, 2019, 6:11:44 AM12/8/19

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Pls find attached some pics sent by my friend for ID. It seems to be a fern species but not quite sure. Can any of the esteemed members help in identifying the species please?

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Saroj Kasaju

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Dec 9, 2019, 12:06:46 AM12/9/19

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Fern! Yes!

Thank you!

Saroj Kasaju

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Pls find attached some pics sent by my friend for ID. It seems to be a fern species but not quite sure. Can any of the esteemed members help in identifying the species please?

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Dec 9, 2019, 12:19:22 AM12/9/19

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Could it be a species of Selaginella ?

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Sandhya

Saroj Kasaju

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Did not see images.

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Abhilash Damodaran

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Dec 9, 2019, 5:36:17 AM12/9/19

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I am reposting the images of the fern like species. Thank you

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ushadi

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Dec 9, 2019, 10:28:07 AM12/9/19

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i think its a moss

need a little better picture of the mass below these leaf like structures

and why is it so densely growing in pot (the first ppic seems have a edge of a grey ???pot)

did he plant a thousand spores?

also better quality pic that can be enlarged would help

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Abhilash Damodaran

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Dec 9, 2019, 10:37:01 AM12/9/19

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Dear Sirs / Madam

It was purchased as an ornamental plant by one Professor. He was too curious to know the botanical details and contacted me. I too got curious. The distribution pattern of spores would have helped in better identification. I will ask him to s Nd a better picture of the under side of fronds. Thank you

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ushadi

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Dec 9, 2019, 10:41:52 AM12/9/19

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spores i am referring to is for growing the moss

it will not show up in the fronds

spores show in ferns

not moss

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ushadi

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Dec 9, 2019, 10:42:41 AM12/9/19

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forgot to say it

any more informative pictures

would help

Regards

Ushadi

Abhilash Damodaran

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Dec 9, 2019, 10:52:21 AM12/9/19

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All the while I thought specimen in the pic was a fern!

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ushadi

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Dec 9, 2019, 11:25:39 AM12/9/19

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Sandhya

i think you are on the right track

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Ushadi

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Abhilash ji

its still too early

lets get more info and pictures

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Ushadi

Mahadeswara

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Dec 10, 2019, 12:01:18 AM12/10/19

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Test for Selaginella. Dry few plants . Keep the dried plants for a few weeks. Pot water. They come alive: "resurrection plant".

M Swamy

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Dec 10, 2019, 1:47:14 AM12/10/19

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Correction : 'pour water' & not pot water

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J.M. Garg

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Dec 21, 2019, 6:05:12 AM12/21/19

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Forwarding again for Id assistance please, if possible.

It was purchased as an ornamental plant by one Professor (in Himachal Pradesh ?)

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Dec 21, 2019, 6:48:20 AM12/21/19

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Thanks a lot, Chris ji.

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From: Chris Fraser-Jenkins
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2019 at 17:11
Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:337240] ID Pls
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Dear Professor,

That is indeed a real horticultural gem of a plant - I am jealous! Would love to grow that! Question is which species? - but for all Selaginella we need to see the strobili in close-up detail and the cilia/teeth on the leaves - and this one is not fertile yet.

The stiff stilt-like rhizoids remind me of S. pennata, S. bisulcata or S. plana, but that's assuming it is Himalayan or widely cultivated in India, which I rather doubt. It might even be an American exotic or something, as far as we know - so I can't tell. It does look a bit like a compressed S. bisulcata, I suppose - from Nepal eastwards to NE India.

The other thing is its dwarf habit suggests to me that it may well be a developed dwarf cultivar of some species, but I don't find it in Hoshizaki's Encyclopaedia of Cultivated Ferns.

If it becomes fertile later on, at least we could then see what group it is in.

Good luck with it - it should be a Fern Show gold-medal plant!

Chris Fraser-Jenkins, Portugal..

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