Paper Title
Taxonomic Studies on the Family Aspidiaceae of Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh

Abstract
The present account deals with the members of the family - Aspidiaceae from Chhindwara. In the present work, 3 genera and 5 species have been collected and studied i.e. Arachinodes amabilis (Bl.), Dryopteris cochleata D.Don., Dryopteris sparsa D.Don. Tectaria coadunata (Wall. ex Hook. Et Grev.), Tectaria polymorpha (Wall. ex Hook.). Some of the taxa of ferns reported earlier from Chhindwara by previous workers based on wrong identification have been placed under the heading excluded / doubtful species giving only botanical names and the reasons for their being excluded / doubtful species are based on Khullar (1994, 2000 & 2001). Keywords - Pteridophytes, Aspidiaceae Family, Chhindwara