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Hypolepis repens

Botanic Family

Dennstaedtiaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) C. Presl

Common Names

• Co-pin-pistcha (Cayapa)

Geographical Habitats

• Florida - USA
• S. Mexico
• Colombia
• Venezuela
• Guyana
• French Guiana
• Ecuador
• Peru
• Bolivia
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Pará
• Paraná
• Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• Antilles
• Belize
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Argentina
• Colombia
• Cuba
• Guadeloupe
• Hispaniola
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Puerto Rico
• Tobago & Trinidad
• Windward Islands

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed forest
• cloud forest
• forest edge
• disturbed areas
• riverside
• clearings
• swamp
• secondary forest. Young fronds eaten

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• May
• Jun
• Aug
• Sep
• Dec

Clambering fern with brown-hairy rhizomes, spiny scandent pinnate fronds to 4metres long, upper surface with scattered hairs on midvein, lower surface pubescent

Further References

• FM
• Mobot
• FB
• The Plant List
• NYBG
• FOPR
• SAFIO