Thanks a lot, Chris ji
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From: Chris Fraser-Jenkins
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 at 01:12
Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:487358] FOR VALIDATION :: ¿ Sphaeropteris
crinita (Hook.) R.M.Tryon ? :: The Nilgiris :: Jan 30, 2026 · 9:37 AM IST
To: J.M. Garg <[email protected]>
Oh dear,
The sender didn't realise the basic situation - Cyathea species cannot
be identified from distant photos! Not at all! You have to take a
close-up photo of the under-surface of a pinnule, so we can see the hairs
and scales, and the sori.
The only thing I can see (I think!) in these far-away photos is that the
stipe and rachis appear to be dark and are not densely covered in pale
scales, so it is certainly not in Section Sphaeropteris and is not C.
crinita.
Although we cannot convingly guess what it is without seeing the sori, I
would imagine they would be in inverted Vs on each pinnule-lobe. So it is
not likely to be anything other than C. gigantea - which is in section
Gymnosphaera.
You can see splendid C. crinita with all the axes densely covered in white
scales and hairs in the late Father Manickam's old fern garden in the
Sacred Heart College at Shembaganur, Kodaikanal, assuming they have
maintained it. It is quite a different fern.
Chris Fraser-Jenkins, UK.
On Friday, 20 March 2026 at 15:16:10 GMT, J.M. Garg <[email protected]>
wrote:
Thanks, Dinesh ji
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From: *Dinesh Valke* <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 at 19:38
Subject: [efloraofindia:487358] FOR VALIDATION :: ¿ Sphaeropteris crinita
(Hook.) R.M.Tryon ? :: The Nilgiris :: Jan 30, 2026 · 9:37 AM IST
To: efloraofindia <[email protected]>
*FOR VALIDATION ::*
¿ *Sphaeropteris crinita* (Hook.) R.M.Tryon ?
The Nilgiris :: Jan 30, 2026 · 9:37 AM IST
Avalanche, about 2037 m asl
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[image: ¿ Sphaeropteris crinita (Hook.) R.M.Tryon ?]
<https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/342250366>
[image: ¿ Sphaeropteris crinita (Hook.) R.M.Tryon ?]
<https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/342250366>
Regards.
Dinesh
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