Dennstaedtia cicutaria (Sw.) T.Moore, Index Fil.

Schwartsburd, Pedro B., Navarrete, Hugo, Smith, Alan R. & Kessler, Michael, 2017, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXVI. Dennstaedtiaceae, Phytotaxa 332 (3), pp. 251-268 : 253

Dennstaedtia cicutaria (Sw.) T.Moore, Index Fil. 97. 1857.

Range:— Greater Antilles; throughout tropical America. In Bolivia, known from BE and LP.

Ecology:— Common; terrestrial mainly present in disturbed areas; 100–2200 m.

Notes:— Dennstaeadtia cicutaria occurs mainly in disturbed areas; habitats include secondary forest margins, roadsides, and pastures, but rarely inside mature forests. Underground rhizomes help make this a successful pioneer in lowlands, just as in some species in other genera of the family, e.g., Pteridium and Hypolepis . Rhizomes of Dennstaedtia cicutaria are slender and very long compared to those of the other species of genus in America. In general, in blade aspect, growth habit, and in the strong development of the basal acroscopic pinnules, D. cicutaria resembles Microlepia speluncae , but features of the indusia clearly differentiate them.