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Sticherus bifidus

Botanic Family

Gleicheniaceae

Author

(Willdenow) Ching

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Bolivia
• Santa Catarina
• Rio de Janeiro
• Minas Gerais
• Bahia
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Peru
• Venezuela
• Cuba
• Guadeloupe
• Hispaniola
• Jamaica
• Leeward Islands
• Puerto Rico
• Windward Islands
• Antilles
• Guyana
• Trinidad

Natural Habitats

• Coastal
• forest
• open banks
• forest edge
• cloud forest
• thickets
• disturbed areas
• primary forest
• shrubland

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

• Mar All year

Clambering or creeping terrestrial fern with yellow-brown sporangia, clambering or decumbent fronds reddish-brown tomentose to 2 metres long, upper surface glabrous, lower surface with dense ferrugineous scales, ferrugineous sori, pinnae to 400mm long, reddish-brown rhizomes

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• Zuchowski
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• NYBG
• FOPR
• SAFIO