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Commercialization–A Suggested Approach for Conserving a Threatened Fern, Pteris tricolor Linden


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1 Botanical Survey of India, Northern Regional Centre, Dehradun 248 195, India
2 Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248 001, India
3 Department of Botany, Kumaun University, Nainital 263 001, India
 

A globally threatened and variegated fern, Pteris tricolor Linden, is listed under different threat categories of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)1. It has a restricted distribution in far North East India, Myanmar and Yunnan province of China2,3. Its discovery, however, was accidental; Linden4 found this species growing spontaneously in the Malaccan orchid consignment at his nursery in Bruxelles (Brussels), Belgium, and described it as a new species with accurate, spectacularly coloured illustration (also reproduced by Fraser-Jenkins5). Its Malaccan origin4,6–9 is rejected because till date it has not been reported from there. Later, it was postulated that it has more likely come from Myanmar10, or alternatively from China or NE India; but in all three countries it is a rare species.
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Authors

Sachin Sharma
Botanical Survey of India, Northern Regional Centre, Dehradun 248 195, India
Bhupendra Singh Kholia
Botanical Survey of India, Northern Regional Centre, Dehradun 248 195, India
Amit Kumar
Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248 001, India
Amber Srivastava
Botanical Survey of India, Northern Regional Centre, Dehradun 248 195, India
Surendra Singh Bargali
Department of Botany, Kumaun University, Nainital 263 001, India

Abstract


A globally threatened and variegated fern, Pteris tricolor Linden, is listed under different threat categories of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)1. It has a restricted distribution in far North East India, Myanmar and Yunnan province of China2,3. Its discovery, however, was accidental; Linden4 found this species growing spontaneously in the Malaccan orchid consignment at his nursery in Bruxelles (Brussels), Belgium, and described it as a new species with accurate, spectacularly coloured illustration (also reproduced by Fraser-Jenkins5). Its Malaccan origin4,6–9 is rejected because till date it has not been reported from there. Later, it was postulated that it has more likely come from Myanmar10, or alternatively from China or NE India; but in all three countries it is a rare species.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv116%2Fi11%2F1790-1792