Family: Polypodiaceae
Group: Pteridophyte
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Vine
Substrate:
Epiphyte
Native Status:
Native
Native Range:
The West Indies and
South Florida.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Reported in 1920 by Britton & Millspaugh as a vine creeping on tree trunks in coppices on Andros and New Providence. Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 36) as climbing on bushes and small saplings in coppices in the northwestern and southeastern Commonwealth (regions 10-8, 3).
Synonyms:
Phymatodes exiguum, Polypodium heterophyllum.
