Ctenitis sloanei
Species of plant
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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.[2] 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.[3][4][5] 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).[3] A member of the genus Ctenitis, it was formerly classified under the genus Dryopteris as Dryopteris ampla.[1][6][5] The population of this fern has been damaged and it is noted to possibly be endangered.[7][8]
| Ctenitis sloanei | |
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| Growing at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami, FL, USA | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Division: | Polypodiophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida |
| Order: | Polypodiales |
| Suborder: | Polypodiineae |
| Family: | Dryopteridaceae |
| Genus: | Ctenitis |
| Species: | C. sloanei |
| Binomial name | |
| Ctenitis sloanei (Poepp. ex Spreng.) Morton | |
| Synonyms | |