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Ctenitis ampla
Also called Bermuda Cave Fern, Florida Lace Fern
Ctenitis sloanei (commonly known as the Florida tree fern, red hair comb fern, Bermuda cave fern, or Florida lacefern) is a species of wood fern native to USA (Florida), Bermuda, Cuba, the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, and northwestern South America. Although it does not belong to the order Cyatheales (the group that contains most tree ferns), it is still considered by some to be a type of tree fern. This would make it the only tree fern native to the continental United States (the parts of the US that exclude Hawaii, Alaska and overseas territories). A member of the genus Ctenitis, it was formerly classified under the genus Dryopteris as Dryopteris ampla. The population of this fern has been damaged and it is noted to possibly be endangered.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ctenitis sloanei by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
