Danaea
Danaea Sm. is a fern genus of approximately 50 species in the eusporangiate fern family Marattiaceae. they are small to intermediately large ferns with erect or creeping rhizomes and usually once pinnate leaves with opposite pinnae. The fertile leaves are contracted, acrostichoid and covered below with sunken, linear synangia. The genus Danaea has a Neotropical distribution, occurring from southern Mexico through Central America, the Caribbean and northern South America to Bolivia, Paraguay and the Mata Atlantica...
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Arthrodanaea
subgenusArthrodanaea
Holodanaea
subgenusHolodanaea
Danaea
subgenusDanaea
Nodeless Danafern
speciesDanaea nodosa
Danaea iridescens
speciesDanaea iridescens
Danaea geniculata
speciesDanaea geniculata
Danaea sellowiana
speciesDanaea sellowiana
Danaea moritziana
speciesDanaea moritziana
Danaea urbani
speciesDanaea urbani
Danaea × jamaicensis
hybridDanaea × jamaicensis
Where it lives
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 142459.