Botanical Name - Lygodium microphyllum

----- Lygodium microphyllum R.Br.

----- Slender, tender, climbing fern, 10-15 ft. long. Fronds scandent, simply pinnate, consisting of a long twining rachis from which at intervals arises short-spurs, bearing a pair of pinnae each; pinnae pinnate; pinnules petioled, 3-4 on each side of a zig-zag rachis with a terminal one which is more or less lobed; barren pinnules ovate, blunt, the margin entire or lobed; fertile ones short, triangular, with a rounded apex and a square base and lobed round the margin. Texture leathery.

----- Found in the dense ever-green forest along the upper reaches of Parentapally and Kakusnoor nalas, practically in water, in Paloncha.