Family: Nephrolepidaceae
Group: Pteridophyte
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Herb
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Native
Native Range:
The West Indies, southern United States, Mexico and Central America; perhaps escaped from cultivation in South America.
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. biserrata. Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 30) for the shelter of caves, on rocky banks and on tree trunks in the northwestern and southeastern Archiipelago (regions 10, 1); the only specimen cited for region 1 is at NY, so it is not clear that this was ever observed by the Corrells in the Turks and Caicos islands. Also collected on Cat Island by Ethan Freid (
225 FTG) in 2000.
Comments:
lso visit IRC's
Natives For Your Neighborhood website for information on use in landscaping and ecological restoration in South Florida.
