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Tectaria zeilanica

Tectaria zeilanica
Photo: Daderot, Public domain
Family
Tectariaceae (Tectari family)
Grows as
Fern
Native range
SW. India, Sri Lanka. S. China to W. Malesia
Climate
wet tropical

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Tectaria zeilanica, the oak leaf fern, is a species of fern in the family Tectariaceae. It is native to Sri Lanka, India, and the Indochina region in southern China and Vietnam, and Taiwan.

It is a small fern, with erect fertile fronds, and sterile fronds shaped like small oak leaves.

Other Tectaria plants

Tectaria chimborazensis · Button fern · Puerto Rico Halberd Fern · Tectaria gemmifera · Tectaria morlae · Tectaria quitensis · Tectaria subrepanda · Tectaria triloba · Halberd Fern

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tectaria zeilanica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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