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Lygodium venustum

Botanic Family

Lygodiaceae

Author

Swartz

Common Names

• Bejuco Alambre or Helecho (Colombia)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Ceará
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Guyana
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela
• Cuba
• Hispaniola
• Trinidad & Tobago

Natural Habitats

• Woodland
• forest streamside
• shrubland
• riverside
• montane areas

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• Jun
• Sep
• Nov
• Dec

Twining climbing herbaceous fern to 3.5m with creeping rhizome. Leaves 2-3 pinnatifid, yellowish-green sori with brown margin, sterile pinnae to 280mm long, mostly bipinnate fertile pinnae, serrate sporangiophores to 8mm long.

Further References

• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• NYBG
• NAF
• USNH
• SAFIO
• Academia