Anemia adiantifolia (L.) Sw.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Anemiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Rootstoek creeping, densely hairy. Leaves distichous, close together, subcoriaceous, 1.5-8.5 dm. long, 2 4-pinnate, ovate to subpentagonal in outline, the straw-colored stipe usually as long as the blade or longer; pinnae several or numerous, the lower the longer, the ultimate segments commonly close together, deltoid to oblong or ovate, obtuse or acutish, entire or few-toothed, 4-15 mm. long. Fertile leaf like the sterile, but the 2 lower pinnae transformed into panicles of sporanges, which are slender-stalked and erect.
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Distribution
In sink-holes and in pine-lands. Abaco, Great Bahama, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Cat Island: Florida; West Indies; Central America; northern South America. Maiden-hair Anemia.
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Cat Island Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies| Distrito Federal Brazil South America|