Botanical Name - Ceratopteris thalictroides

----- Ceratopteris thalictroides, Brong.

----- A true acquatic fern, 1 1/2 to 3 ft. or more high ; stipes stick, spongy, filled with air-spaces ; frond succulent in texture, the barren ones simple or divided a little or 2-3-pinnate ; fertile fronds 2-3-pinnate ; pinnae forked, pod like. Young fronds like a mass of veins or vienlets without the leafy portion. Buds are frequently borne by the fronds and these after falling produce new plants.

----- Found in the State in Pakhal marshes ( Pakhal Burgoo ) in the stream ; and near the ( Narsampet Range Warangal ).