Family: Anemiaceae
                                    
                                    
				
                                    
Group: Pteridophyte
                                    
                                    
				
                                    
Substrate:
					
                                   Terrestrial
					
                                    
                                    
				
                                    
Habit:
					
                                    Herb
					 
                                    
                                    
				
                                    
Perennation:
					
                                   Perennial
					
                                    
                                    
				
                                    
Native Range: Peninsular Florida, the West Indies, southern Mexico, Central America and northern South America.
                                    
                                    
				
                                    
IRC SOUTH FLORIDA Status:
					
						Apparently Secure
					
              
                
                
				
                                     
Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida
                                    
				
                                    SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence:
				  
                                    Present
			      
                                    
                                    
		    
                                    
SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status:
					
                                    Native
                                    
                                    
                                    
				
                                    
SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status:
					
                                    Cultivated
					
                                    
                                    
	            
                                    
Comments: Visit our 
Natives For Your Neighborhood website for more information and images.   Reported by John Kunkel Small in 1918 for 
Royal Palm Hammock.
                                    
                                    
				
          
            FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence:
          
				  
						Present
			      
				  
				  
		      
            
FLORIDA KEYS Native Status:
					
            			Native
	            	
					
					
				
              
IRC FLORIDA KEYS Status:
					
						Rare
					
					
					
                                   
				
                                      
Map of select IRC data for the Florida Keys
                                    
				
          Florida Keys History and Distribution: First collected between 1838 and 1853 by John Loomis Blodgett on the island of Key West and on Big Pine Key.  Reported in 1931 by John Kunkel Small for dry pinelands and hammocks in the lower Florida Keys.  We consider this native and extant in the lower Florida Keys.