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Flexuose Climbing Fern
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Ferns

Flexuose Climbing Fern

Lygodium flexuosum (L.) Sw.

Names

EnglishFlexuose Climbing Fern
Dutch—
Spanish—
Chinese曲轴海金沙
Scientific nameLygodium flexuosum (L.) Sw.

About this species

Lygodium flexuosum, also known as the flexuose climbing fern, is a rhizomatous perennial climbing fern native to tropical and subtropical Asia and northern Australia. It produces thin, wiry fronds that twine and climb, arising from horizontal rhizomes and stolons on or beneath the ground. The pinnae are oppositely arranged, triangular in shape, with fertile pinnae margins forming finger-like projections that bear sporangia for spore production. Unlike flowering plants, this species reproduces by spores and often forms dense vine growth in wet tropical habitats.

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Classification

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassPolypodiopsida
OrderSchizaeales
FamilyLygodiaceae
GenusLygodium

In Suriname

2Records in Suriname
1827First record

Where it has been recorded

  • Paramaribo1

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

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