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Microgramma nitida is a small epiphytic fern with long creeping rhizomes that grows on tree trunks and branches in wet tropical forests. Keep it humid and bright but out of direct sun, and mount it on bark or in an epiphytic mix.
Microgramma nitida, with no commonly used English name other than snake fern, shared with several other plants, is a species of epiphytic fern native mostly to tropical wet forests of the New World. It belongs to the family Polypodiaceae.
Microgramma nitida occurs in Mexico's eastern states from Tamaulipas southward, throughout Central America, and in the Caribbean on the islands of Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and San Andrés and Providencia. In the US state of Florida Microgramma nitida has escaped from cultivation.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Microgramma nitida 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.
