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Taxon: Ceratopteris thalictroides (L.) Brongn.

Genus: Ceratopteris
Family: Pteridaceae. Also placed in: Parkeriaceae
Nomen number: 400378
Place of publication: Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris sér. 3, 8:186. 1822 ("1821")
Name verified on: 07-Oct-1994 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 18-Jul-2007
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:
CAª.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • water fern   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • water horn fern   (Source: Slocum & Robinson) – English
  • water sprite   (Source: Slocum & Robinson) – English
  • mizu-warabi   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Japanese Rōmaji

Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • AFRICA
    Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan; Yemen - Socotra
    East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania [incl. Zanzibar]; Uganda
    West-Central Tropical Africa: Burundi; Cameroon; Gabon; Zaire
    West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Liberia; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
    South Tropical Africa: Angola; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
    Southern Africa: Botswana
    Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Seychelles
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    China: China - Guangdong, Guangxi
    Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Sri Lanka
    Indo-China: Thailand; Vietnam
    Malesia: Indonesia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
  • AUSTRALASIA
    Australia: Australia - Northern Territory [n.], Queensland, Western Australia [n.]
  • NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
    Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
    Mexico
  • PACIFIC
    North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
    Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Micronesia
    Southwestern Pacific: Solomon Islands
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Nicaragua; Panama
    Caribbean: Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Trinidad and Tobago
    Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
    Brazil: Brazil
    Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador

      Naturalized:
  • possibly adventive or naturalized weed in some areas

      Other:
  • exact native range obscure

References:

  • PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
  • Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2. (L Guianas ed2)
  • Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana. (F Mesoamer)
  • Dyer, R. A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flora of southern Africa. (F SAfr)
  • Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer) 2:120.
  • George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia. (F Aust)
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan. (F Japan)
  • Johns, R. J. 1991. Pteridophytes of Tropical East Africa. (Ferns TE Afr)
  • Lellinger, D. B. 1989. The ferns and fern-allies of Costa Rica, Panama, and the Chocó (Part 1:Psilotaceae through Dicksoniaceae). Pteridologia 2A:108.
  • Lloyd, R. M. 1974. Brittonia 26:150–152.
  • Mickel, J. T. & A. R. Smith. 2004. The pteridophytes of Mexico. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 88:1-1054. (Ferns Mexico)
  • Parham, J. W. 1972. Plants of the Fiji islands, revised ed. (F Fiji)
  • Proctor, G. R. 1985. Ferns of Jamaica. A guide to the pteridophytes. (Ferns Jam)
  • Proctor, G. R. 1989. Ferns of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 53:1-389. (Ferns PR VirgI)
  • Reed, C. F. 1977. Economically important foreign weeds: potential problems in the United States. (Econ FWeed)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Slocum, P. D. & P. Robinson. 1996. Water gardening. 64.
  • Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. (F VenGuay)
  • Tagawa, M. & K. Iwatsuki. 1985. Flora of Thailand. (F Thailand) 3:184. [published in 1822].
  • Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia. (F Somalia)
  • Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Parkeriaceae. In: Turrill, W. B. et al., eds., Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
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Check other databases for Ceratopteris thalictroides (L.) Brongn.:

  • Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
  • AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
  • ABIF: Australian Biodiversity Information Facility's Flora of Australia online
  • SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
  • On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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