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Lygodium volubile

Botanic Family

Lygodiaceae

Author

Swartz

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Costa Rica
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Bahia
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Piaui
• Rio de Janeiro
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela
• Cuba
• Jamaica
• Trinidad

Natural Habitats

• Seasonally inundated areas
• primary forest
• mountains

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Twining high-climbing root-climber with fern-like leaves with 3 leaflets, greenish to yellow sporae, climbing fronds to 10m, creeping rhizome clothed in blackish hairs, fertile pinnae pinnate or bipinnate, serrate sporangiophores to 10mm long

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• NHN
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List
• NAF