Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations. Also an accent epiphyte. Identified by Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden as a native that does especially well in shade in this brochure.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
	One of the most abundant epiphytic ferns in a wide variety of forests.
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts.
Description:
	Epiphytic or terrestrial fern with numerous erect fronds rising in a tuft from the rootstock. Leaves long and narrow.
Height:
	Typically 2-3 feet in height. Mostly taller than broad.
Growth Rate:
	Moderate.
Range:
	Monroe County Keys north to Volusia, Lake and Citrus counties; West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America. In the Monroe County Keys, apparently native only to Key Largo.
Habitats:
	A wide variety of swamps and humid forests.
Soils:
	Epiphytic, growing on the trunks and branches of trees and shrubs, or terrestrial in moist, well-drained humusy leaf litter; also on rotting logs and on limestone.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Moderate; can grow on nutrient poor substrate, but needs some nutrient inputs to thrive.
Salt Water Tolerance:
	Low; does not tolerate long-term flooding by salt or brackish water.
Salt Wind Tolerance:
	Low; salt wind may burn the leaves.
Drought Tolerance:
	Low; requires moist substrate and high humidity and is intolerant of long periods of drought.
Light Requirements:
	Light shade.
Flower Color:
	N/A.
Flower Characteristics:
	There are no flowers; the plants reproduce by spores.
Flowering Season:
	All year.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous spores.
Wildlife and Ecology:
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from spores. Small plants can be transplanted.
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