Polypodium polypodioides (L.) Watt
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Polypodiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Eootstock widely creeping, woody, covered with small brown scales. Stipes densely appressed-sealy, 2.5-10 cm. long; blades oblong-lanceolate in outline, acute, coriaceous, evergreen, 3-15 cm. long, 2.5-4 cm. wide, cut very nearly or quite to the rachis into entire, oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse segments, glabrous or nearly so on the upper surface, the lower densely covered with gray unappendaged peltate scales with darker centres, as are also the rachises; veins indistinct, usually once forked, connected or free.
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Distribution
On trees, especially in coppices, Abaco, Great Bahama, Andros, New Providence, Crooked Island : southeastern United States ; Jamaica ; Cuba to St. Jan and Trinidad ; continental tropical America. Gray Polypody.
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Crooked Island Bahamas South America| Jamaica South America| Cuba South America| St. Jan Virgin Islands South America| Trinidad and Tobago South America|