Family: Nephrolepidaceae
Group: Pteridophyte
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Herb
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Native Range:
The West Indies, southeastern United States (peninsular Florida, Louisiana), Mexico, Central America, South America and the Old World.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Reported in 1920 by Britton & Millspaugh for a cave on East Caicos, where it grew with N. exaltata. Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 30) for the shelter of caves and rocky woodlands in the Turks and Caicos Islands (region 1); the only specimen cited is at NY, so it is not clear that this was ever observed by the Corrells.
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