Campyloneurum phyllitidis (L.) C.Presl

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Polypodiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Campyloneurum phyllitidis (L.) C.Presl

  • Description

    Species Description - Tufted ferns, with large narrow entire leaves. Sori dorsal, mostly in 1 or 2 rows on each side of the primary veins; indusium none. Primary venation regularly pinnate, the veins connected by nearly parallel veinlets forming regular areoles. [Greek, crooked-nerved.] Twenty species or more, natives of tropical and subtropical regions, the following typical.

  • Distribution

    On trees and in sink-holes in coppices, Abaco, Great Bahama, Andros, New Providence, Crooked Island : Florida ; West Indies ; continental tropical America. Strap-fern.

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