Authority:

Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

Family:

Pteridaceae

Description:

Species Description - Rootstocks stout, erect, often forming large colonies. Leaves 1-3 m. high; petioles tufted, erect, channelled, often armed with horny spurs; blades leathery in texture, longer than the petioles; pinnae 10 pairs or more, the venation very oblique; sporanges usually borne only on the upper pinnae; segregate of corpuscles covering sporanges not sausage-shaped.

Distribution:

Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Acklins Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|