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Plant Characteristics

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb , Fern
Leaf Complexity: Pinnate
Leaf Shape: Lanceolate
Size Notes: Fronds to about 16 inches.
Leaf: "Rhizome decumbent to nearly erect, 4-6 mm thick (excluding stipe bases), bearing an apical tuft of pale brown, lance-attenuate, minutely stellate-puberulous scales 5-9 mm long. Fronds often or usually dimorphic, the sterile ones shorter and spreading or prostrate, the fertile ones longer, long-stipitate, and rigidly erect. Stipes of fertile fronds to 15 cm long, minutely stellate-puberulous; fertile blades lanceolate, narrowly oblanceolate, or linear-attenuate, 10-40 cm long, 2-6(-9) cm broad near or above the middle, pinnate only at base (one to several pairs of much reduced, distant pinnae), otherwise lobed or pinnatifid; rhachis stellate-puberulous on both sides, the other vascular parts with stellate hairs abaxially only. Segments variable, deltate-oblong to linear-oblong, obtuse or somewhat acute, entire to crenate or lobed, the veins 8-15 pairs, mostly branched, the basal veinlets joined, forming a series of areoles along the rhachis and costae." (Bibref: 1830).
Fruit: "Sori inframedial; indusium small or minute, stellate-puberulous; sporangia glabrous." (Bibref: 1830).

Bloom Information

Bloom Color: Not Applicable
Bloom Notes: Non-flowering, sporulating plant.

Distribution

USA: FL
Native Distribution: "South Florida (Broward County); West Indies; southeastern Mexico (Quintana Roo). Reported for Broward County, Florida." (Webref: 178).
Native Habitat: "On limestone solution holes in hammocks." (Webref: 178).

Bibliography

Bibref 1830 - Ferns of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden, Volume 59) (1989) Proctor, George R.

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Web Reference

Webref 178 - Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025) North Carolina Botanical Garden; Chapel Hill, NC.

Additional resources

USDA: Find Goniopteris domingensis in USDA Plants
FNA: Find Goniopteris domingensis in the Flora of North America (if available)
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