Sceptridium lunarioides: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Polypodiopsida
- Order
- Ophioglossales
- Family
- Ophioglossaceae
- Genus
- Sceptridium
- Species
- Sceptridium lunarioides
- Scientific Name
- Sceptridium lunarioides
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Sceptridium lunarioides
Sceptridium lunarioides, the winter grapefern, is a species of fern in the Ophioglossaceae family native to the southeastern United States. It is found in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina. It is possibly extirpated from North Carolina. This species favors "open grassy places in prairies, cemeteries, and weedy roadsides." Like other grape ferns, it depends on a mycorrhizal association in the soil to survive.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Sceptridium atrovirens
- Sceptridium biforme
- Sceptridium biternatum
- Sceptridium daucifolium
- Sceptridium decompositum
- Sceptridium dissectum
- Sceptridium formosanum
- Sceptridium japonicum
- Sceptridium jenmanii
- Sceptridium lunarioides
- Sceptridium microphyllum
- Sceptridium multifidum
- Sceptridium nipponicum
- Sceptridium oneidense
- Sceptridium robustum
- Sceptridium rugulosum
- Sceptridium schaffneri
- Sceptridium subbifoliatum
- Sceptridium ternatum
- Sceptridium triangularifolium
- Sceptridium underwoodianum


































































































































