View source for Nephrolepis cordifolia

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|accepted_name=Nephrolepis cordifolia
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) C. Presl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Tent. Pterid.
|place=79. 1836
|year=1836
}}
|common_names=Tuberous sword fern;tuber sword fern
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Polypodium cordifolium
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=2: 1089. 1753
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aspidium cordifolium
|authority=(Linnaeus) Swartz
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Dryopteridaceae;Nephrolepis;Nephrolepis cordifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Dryopteridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Nephrolepis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Nephrolepis cordifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stem </b>scales spreading, concolored. <b>Tubers</b> present or absent. <b>Leaves</b> 2.5–10.7 × 0.3–0.7 dm. <b>Petiole</b> 0.3–2 dm, moderately to densely scaly; scales spreading, pale brown throughout. <b>Blade</b> lacking scales, glabrous (rarely with a few branched hairs abaxially). <b>Rachis</b> 2.2–9 dm, points of pinna attachment 5–12 mm apart; scales moderately spaced to dense, pale to dark brown, point of attachment distinctly darker. <b>Central</b> pinnae oblong to lanceolate-oblong, straight to slightly falcate, 0.9–5 × 0.4–0.9 cm, base auriculate-cordate, acroscopically overlapping rachis, acroscopic lobe deltate, margins entire to serrulate to smoothly crenate, apex acute to bluntly rounded; costae adaxially glabrous. <b>Indusia</b> reniform to lunate or deltate-rounded, attached along broad sinus, 1.1–1.7 mm wide. <b>2n</b> = 82.</span><!--

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|habitat=Terrestrial or epiphytic in wet, shady places, limestone ledges, cliffs, rock, roadsides, and often old homesites or waste places, widely escaped from cultivation and only questionably native to any particular region
|elevation=0 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Africa;se Asia;Pacific Islands (Hawaii).
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name=Nephrolepis cordifolia
|authority=(Linnaeus) C. Presl
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Aspidium cordifolium
|basionyms=Polypodium cordifolium
|family=Dryopteridaceae
|habitat=Terrestrial or epiphytic in wet, shady places, limestone ledges, cliffs, rock, roadsides, and often old homesites or waste places, widely escaped from cultivation and only questionably native to any particular region
|elevation=0 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Africa;se Asia;Pacific Islands (Hawaii).
|reference=None
|publication title=Tent. Pterid.
|publication year=1836
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Nephrolepis
|species=Nephrolepis cordifolia
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