Wild Ferns (and their allies)
| Dennstaedtiaceae family Pteridium arachnoideum (Kaulfuss) Maxon, J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 14: 89. 1924. Bas.: Pteris arachnoidea Kaulfuss (1824). Syn.: Pteridium aquilinum (Linnaeus) Kuhn var. arachnoideum (Kaulfuss) Brade (1920). Indigenous viny terrestrial of fumaroles. Very common on the slope of Mount Souf facing the Sulphur Springs. Also near the summit of Petit Piton. St. Lucia, Greater Antilles, Tobago, Trinidad, Mesoamerica, South America. |
Sulphur Springs,
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