Niphidium crassifolium

Tags: Fern.

Niphidium crassifolium commonly known as the graceful fern is a species of fern in the Polypodiaceae family found in Central and South America. It is predominantly an epiphytic growing on other plants for example in the canopies of trees but is occasionally grows on rocks or on the ground particularly at higher altitude. It has a rhizome from which many fine rootlets covered in dark reddish-brown scales grow.

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binomial authority

Carl Linnaeus

class

Leptosporangiate fern

division

Pteridophyte

family

Polypodiaceae

genus

Niphidium

kingdom

Plant

order

Polypodiales

synonym

Anaxetum crassifolium (L.) Schott), Dipteris crassifolia (L.) J. Sm.), Drynaria crassifolia (L.) J. Sm.), Pessopteris crassifolia (L.) Underw. & Maxon), Phymatodes crassifolia (L.) PRESL), Pleopeltis crassifolia (L.) T. Moore), Pleuridium angustum (Fée), Pleuridium crassifolium (L.) Fée), Polypodium coriaceum (Raddi), Polypodium crassifolium (L.), Polypodium porrectum (Willd.)