Phymatodes exiguum Underw.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Dipteridaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Phymatodes exiguum Underw.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Rootstocks creeping on trees or shrubs, slender, clothed with brown linear lanceolate scales, simple or branched, sometimes 8 dm. long. Leaves thin, various, linear, oblong, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 5-10 cm. long, 5-15 mm. wide, acute or obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base into petioles 4-12 mm. long, entire or slightly undulate; sori mostly in 2 rows, one row on each side of the midvein.

  • Distribution

    On tree-trunks in coppices, Andros, New Providence : Florida ; Jamaica ; Cuba to St. Jan ; St. Croix ; Montserrat. Climbing Polypody.

    Andros Island Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| Cuba South America| St. Jan Virgin Islands South America| Saint Croix Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Montserrat South America|