Family: Nephrolepidaceae
Group: Pteridophyte
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Herb
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Not Native, Naturalized
Native Range:
Old World tropics (Asia); an invasive weed elsewhere.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Not listed by Britton & Millspaugh (1920). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 31-32, with illustrations) for thickets, coppices and disturbed areas nearly throughout the Archipelago (regions 10-2, but almost certainly now in the Turks and Caicos Islands). Collected in the Bahamas as early as 1968 (Gillis 7329, FTG).
Comments:
Distinguished from native sword ferns by the dark brown scales at the base of the fronds.
Synonyms:
Nephrolepis multiflora.
