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Plant Characteristics

Duration: Perennial
Habit: Herb , Fern
Size Notes: Fronds up to about 3 feet long.
Leaf: "Leaves erect, or arching in large plants. Petiole dark brown, less than 1/10 length of blade, pubescent with both simple and branched, short, multicellular hairs; scales threadlike, linear, scattered, inconspicuous. Blade lanceolate, 25-90 x 6.5-18 cm; base narrowly cuneate; apex acute. Segments lanceolate, 4-8 mm wide, sparsely pubescent, at base of blade reduced to auricles. Veins 2-3-forked." (Webref: 38).
Fruit: " Sori oval, blade pubescence denser and longer around sorus; sporangia with 64 spores." (Webref: 38).

Bloom Information

Bloom Time: Jan , Feb , Mar , Apr , May , Jun , Jul , Aug , Sep , Oct , Nov , Dec
Bloom Notes: Non-flowering, sporutating taxon. Flowering data refers to time of sporulation. Sporulates any time of the year.

Distribution

USA: FL
Native Distribution: "Florida, Mexico, West Indies, Central America." (Webref: 38).
Native Habitat: "Terrestrial, or on logs or tree bases, in hammocks, swamps, and wet woods" (Webref: 38).

Web Reference

Webref 38 - Flora of North America (2019) Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.

Additional resources

USDA: Find Pecluma bourgeauana in USDA Plants
FNA: Find Pecluma bourgeauana in the Flora of North America (if available)
Google: Search Google for Pecluma bourgeauana