Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Accepted by Kew Gardens' POWO website (2023). Unresolved nomenclature as of 21-Jul-2011 fide Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Missouri Botanical Garden (2010). Erroneously reported by Stewart (1911); misidentification of Trichomanes reptans Sw. (=Trichomanes montanum Hook.), fide Wiggins & Porter (1971).

Origin: Native

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

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