Family: Thelypteridaceae
Group: Pteridophyte
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Herb
Substrate:
Lithophyte
Native Status:
Native
Native Range:
The Bahamas and southeastern United States. Variety lindheimeri is found in the West Indies, Mexico and Central America.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Not listed in Britton & Millspaugh (1920), but this could have easily been misidentified as T. kunthii. Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 51-52) for the walls of sinkholes and banana holes in coppices in the northwestern Commonwealth (regions 9-8).
Comments:
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