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Brown-hair Comb Fern (Ctenitis submarginalis)

Global Rank: G5 - Secure
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Dryopteridaceae
State: FL, LA
Nature Serve ID: 136053
Lifeform: Forb/herb
Categories of Interest: Ferns
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

Ctenitis submarginalis is a perennial fern around 4-8 inches in length.

Where is Brown-hair Comb Fern (Ctenitis submarginalis) located in the wild?

Habitat:

Ctenitis submarginalis can be found in terrestrial swamps, strand swamps, wet woods and in the circumneutral soil of Mesic hammocks and rockland hammocks. It is native to Cypress swamps, rockland hammocks, old forested spoil banks of Florida, Louisianna, Mexico; West Indies in Hispaniola,Central America and South America to Uruguay. (Gann 2002.)

Distribution:

Ctenitis submarginalis is native to Cypress swamps, rockland hammocks, old forested spoil banks of Florida, Louisianna, Mexico; West Indies in Hispaniola,Central America and South America to Uruguay.

This species is threatened by development and invasive exotic plants.

States & Provinces:

Brown-hair Comb Fern can be found in Florida, Louisiana

Which CPC Partners conserve Brown-hair Comb Fern (Ctenitis submarginalis)?

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

Not Sponsored

Assigned 06/09/17

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Conservation Actions

Nature Serve Biotics

05/02/2017

WIDESPREAD THROUGHOUT WEST INDIES, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA; ALSO FOUND IN LOUISIANA AND FLORIDA, US.