Flexuose Climbing Fern
Lygodium flexuosum
- Habit
- Climbing fern
- Found in India
- Assam, Maharashtra, West Bengal & more
How to identify Flexuose Climbing Fern
Identify Flexuose Climbing Fern by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a climbing fern habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Twining vine-like climbing fern.
- In India, compare location records such as Assam, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Karnataka and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Lygodiaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Flexuose Climbing Fern.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Lygodium flexuosum
- Genus
- Lygodium
- Family
- Lygodiaceae
- Habit
- Climbing fern
- Habitat
- In partial shade at 4 m and in wet deciduous forests
- Native to
- India, China, Australia
- Found in India
- Assam, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Karnataka, Kerala, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Tamil Nadu, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Nagaland, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Malayalam
- പൊലിവള്ളി
About Flexuose Climbing Fern
Flexuose Climbing Fern (Lygodium flexuosum) belongs to the Lygodiaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Assam, Maharashtra, West Bengal and 14 other states. It grows in in partial shade at 4 m and in wet deciduous forests.
Lygodiaceae
Climbing Fern Family
Flexuose Climbing Fern belongs to the Lygodiaceae family.
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