About Flexuose Climbing Fern
Lygodium flexuosum, also known as the flexuose climbing fern, is a rhizomatous perennial climbing fern native to tropical and subtropical Asia and northern Australia. It produces thin, wiry fronds that twine and climb, arising from horizontal rhizomes and stolons on or beneath the ground. The pinnae are oppositely arranged, triangular in shape, with fertile pinnae margins forming finger-like projections that bear sporangia for spore production. Unlike flowering plants, this species reproduces by spores and often forms dense vine growth in wet tropical habitats.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Malayalam
- പൊലിവള്ളി
Lygodiaceae
CLIMBING FERN FAMILY
Flexuose Climbing Fern belongs to the Lygodiaceae family.
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