Adiantum tenerum Sw. is a plant in the Pteridaceae family, order Polypodiales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Adiantum tenerum Sw.

Adiantum tenerum Sw.

Adiantum tenerum Sw. is a creeping fern with distinctive light green leaves native to regions across the Americas.

Family
Genus
Adiantum
Order
Polypodiales
Class
Polypodiopsida

About Adiantum tenerum Sw.

Adiantum tenerum Sw. is a fern that grows with a creeping growth habit. Its leaves are light green, pinnate, fan-shaped, and glabrous. The leaves are either arching or pendent, and are approximately as long as they are broad. This species is native to Florida in the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Colombia, Brazil, and Venezuela. It grows only in moist, shaded, limestone ledges and grottoes.

Photo: (c) Leon Perrie, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Leon Perrie · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Polypodiopsida Polypodiales Pteridaceae Adiantum

More from Pteridaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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