Tectaria amesiana A.A.Eaton
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Tectariaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Bootstock short, stout. Leaves 4 dm. long or less; petioles rather slender, about as long as the blades or shorter; blades narrowly ovate or ovate-lanceolate in outline, rather thin, pinnate-pinnatifid, the segments and lobes obtuse or rounded, the lower 1 to 3 pairs of pinnae short-stalked; sori scattered or in 1 or 2 more or less rows parallel with the venation, 1-1.5 mm. in diameter.
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Distribution
Eleuthera, at Gregory Town (Coker .372) ; referred to this species with hesitation. Known otherwise only from one station in Florida. Ames' Halberd-fern.
Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America|