Neurodium lanceolatum

(Linnaeus) Fée

3: 28. 1852.

Common names: Ribbon fern
Basionym: Pteris lanceolata Linnaeus
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 2.
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Roots brown, in dense mass often covering stems. Stem scales black to dark-brown, triangular-acuminate to lanceolate-acuminate, clathrate, papillate-ciliolate. Leaves erect-arching, 1–4.5 dm. Petiole less than 3.5 cm. Blade 20 × 1.3 cm, leathery; base narrowly cuneate to attenuate; apex acute to rounded. Sori to 6 cm, ending ca. 0.5 cm below apex of blade. 2n = 74.


Habitat: Epiphytic in hammocks and mangrove swamps, substrate subacidic to circumneutral
Elevation: 0 m

Distribution

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Fla., Mexico, West Indies, Central America.

Discussion

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Lower Taxa

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