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| Adiantum latifolium | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Division: | Polypodiophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida |
| Order: | Polypodiales |
| Family: | Pteridaceae |
| Genus: | Adiantum |
| Species: | A. latifolium
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| Binomial name | |
| Adiantum latifolium Lam.
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Adiantum latifolium, the broadleaf maidenhair, is a species of maidenhair fern in the family Pteridaceae[1][2]. It was first described in 1783 in Encyclopédie méthodique Botanique [3]. The species is native to a wide range from southern Mexico through Central America and much of tropical South America, as well as several Caribbean islands. Its distribution includes Argentina (Northeast), Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, and the Leeward and Windward Islands. The plant has also been introduced into South and Southeast Asia, including the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaya[4]. A. latifolium is a rhizomatous geophyte that grows primarily in wet tropical biomes.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ "NParks | Adiantum latifolium". www.nparks.gov.sg. Retrieved 2025-09-13.
- ^ "USDA Plants Database". plants.usda.gov. Retrieved 2025-09-13.
- ^ Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine de Monet de, Poiret, Jean-Louis-Marie (1783). Encyclopédie méthodique. Botanique. Panckoucke;Plomteux. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.824.
- ^ "Adiantum latifolium Lam. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2025-09-13.
- ^ "Adiantum latifolium Lam". www.worldfloraonline.org. Archived from the original on 2023-03-31. Retrieved 2025-09-13.
- ^ "Ferns of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia > Adiantum latifolium". websites.rbge.org.uk. Retrieved 2025-09-13.
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Found in Central and South America, India, and Southeast Asia.Synonyms
- Broadleaf Maidenhair Fern