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Anemia tabascana is a rare fern known only from a single hill in Tabasco, Mexico, where it grows on road banks. Like other Anemia ferns it is a terrestrial plant that needs humid, shaded conditions, so it is rarely grown in cultivation.
Anemia tabascana is a fern endemic to the state of Tabasco, Mexico. It grows on road banks on a single hill in Huimanguillo. Like other members of the genus, its leaves are pinnately divided into a single set of leaflets; in fertile leaves, the lowest pair of leaflets projects at right angles to the rest of the leaf and bears spores. The freely forking veins, which do not rejoin one another after forking, and sparse, rather than abundant, hairs on the leaf axes, distinguish it from similar species in the genus.
So far, the species has only been collected from a single hill, the Cerro La Antena, in Huimanguillo, Tabasco. It grows on soil in road banks, in an area that was tropical rainforest, or tropical rainforest transitioning to humid montane forest, but which has largely been converted to grassland.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Anemia tabascana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
