Characteristics
Pteridophytes
Pleopeltis polypodioides (L.)E.G.Andrews & Windham
TROPICAL RESURRECTION FERN
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This Caribbean basin taxon is similar to Pleopeltis michauxiana but differs by having scales on the adaxial blade surface (Weatherby 1939; Sprunt 2010; Sprunt et al. 2011). In Florida, it is thus far known from but one population on Key Largo.
Native
Classification
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POLYPODIALES
Pleopeltis polypodioides (L.)E.G.Andrews & Windham - TROPICAL RESURRECTION FERN
Citation
PLEOPELTIS POLYPODIOIDES (Linnaeus) E. G. Andrews & Windham, Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 19: 46. 1993.
Acrostichum polypodioides Linnaeus 1753.
Without data (lectotype: Plukenet, Phytographia t. 289(1) 1694). Lectotypified by Verdcourt, Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Polypodiaceae 31. 2001.