Abstract | By means of field investigation, specimen identification and related literatures, eleven species and one variety belonging to ten genera in five families of ferns were identified as new records in Wuling Area of Hubei Province, viz. Botrychium daucifolium Wall. ex Hook. et Grev., Vandenboschia striata (D. Don) Ebihara, Crepidomanes minutum (Blume) K. Iwats., Pteris insignis Mett. ex Kuhn, Pteris wallichiana var. obtusa S. H. Wu, Adiantum monochlamys D.C. Eaton, Diplaziopsis javanica (Blume) C. Chr., Selliguea glaucopsis (Franch.) S. G. Lu, Hovenkamp et M. G.Gilbert, Selliguea trisecta ( Baker) Fraser-Jenk., Polypodiodes subamoena ( C. B. Clarke) Ching, Metapolypodium microrhizoma (C. B. Clarke ex Baker) S. G. Lu et L. H. Yang, Platygyria waltonii (Ching) Ching et S. K. Wu. Voucher specimens are deposited in the herbarium of South-Central University for Nationalities (HSN). |