Synonym: Acrostichum nicotianifolium; Bolbitis riparia.
Clades:
Elaphoglossoideae,
Dryopteridaceae.
Genus: 10 species.
Region: widespread; Central America and northern South America.
Habitat: in shade on side of trail in moist, secondary forest.
BotanyFern; hemiepiphyte; terrestrial and climbing up base of tree trunk.