Tectaria minima Underw.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Tectariaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Tectaria minima Underw.

  • Description

    Species Description - Bootstock slender, short, brown-scaly. Leaves 0.8-4 dm. long; petioles green, or brownish, slender, commonly much longer than the blades, often very slender; blades various, thin, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, but the fully developed ones not much longer than broad, lobed, pinnatifid or sometimes trifoliolate, the basal lobes obtuse, acute or rarely acuminate; sori usually few, scattered, or in 1 or 2 more or less complete rows parallel with the lateral veins, 1-1.5 mm. in diameter.

  • Distribution

    In sink-holes, wells and caves, Abaco, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Cat Island : Florida ; Cuba. Small Halberd-fern.

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