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Floristic Inventory of the Bahama Archipelago Database Online

Thelypteris dentata (Forrsk.) E.P. St. John
Downy shield fern

Thelypteris dentata
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Family: Thelypteridaceae

Group: Pteridophyte

Perennation: Perennial

Habit: Herb

Substrate: Terrestrial

Native Status: Not Native, Naturalized

Native Range: Old World; widely naturalized in the New World.

Map of Locations [currently Florida only]

History in the Bahamas: Not listed by Britton & Millspaugh (1920). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 49, 51, with illustration) for the walls of banana holes and solution pits and on shaded rocky ledges in the central Commonwealth (region 6). Collected as early as 1973 on Great Exuma (Correll 40856 FTG).

Other data on Thelypteris dentata available from :

Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
Thelypteris dentata has been reported for the following 3 habitats in the Bahama Archipelago :
Banana Hole
Coppice
Sinkhole

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