Pteridium caudatum

Everglades NP, Florida

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Polypodiales
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Divisio: Tracheophyta Divisio: Pteridophyta Classis: Polypodiopsida Ordo: Polypodiales

Familia: Dennstaedtiaceae
Genus: Pteridium
Species: Pteridium caudatum

Name

Pteridium caudatum (L.) Maxon, 1901

Synonyms

• Allosorus caudatus (L.) C. Presl
• Cincinalis caudata (L.) Trevis.
• Filix-foemina aquilina var. caudata (L.) Farw.
• Ornithopteris caudata (L.) J. Sm.
• Pteridium aquilinum subsp. caudatum (L.) Bonap.
• Pteridium aquilinum var. caudatum (L.) Sadeb.
• Pteris aquilina var. caudata (L.) A. Gray
• Pteris aquilina var. mexicana Fée
• Pteris caudata L.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Northern America USA (C-Florida, S-Florida), Mexico (Baja California Norte, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan) Continental: Southern America Bermuda, Bahamas, Turks & Caicos Isl., Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia (Amazonas, Antioquia, Boyac, Caldas, Caquet, Cundinamarca, Huila, San Andrs, Providencia y Santa Catalina, Santander), Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolivar, Carabobo, Distrito Federal, Falcon, Lara, Merida, Miranda, Nueva Esparta, Portuguesa, Tachira, Yaracuy, Zulia), Trinidad, Ecuador, Peru, Antigua, Montserrat, Galapagos, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, Revillagigedos Isl. (Isla Socorro), Cayman Isl. (Grand Cayman), Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, N-Brazil (Amazonas, Acre, Rondonia), NE-Brazil, Bolivia (La Paz, Santa Cruz) References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Maxon, W.R., 1901. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 23(1226): 631.

Links

• Hassler, M. 2020. Pteridium caudatum – World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World . In: Roskov Y., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J. & Penev L. (eds.) 2020. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Mar 03.
• International Plant Names Index. 2020. Pteridium caudatum. Published online. Accessed: Mar 03 2020.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Pteridium caudatum in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Mar 03. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2020. Pteridium caudatum. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 03 Mar 2020.
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Pteridium caudatum in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 08-Apr-12.

Vernacular names

English: Southern brackenfern

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