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Acrostichum aureum (golden leatherfern)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Acrostichum aureum, the golden leather fern, is a large species of fern that grows in mangrove swamps and other wet locations. Other common names include swamp fern and mangrove fern.
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Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Fern

Protected Areas

Predators

Ceroplastes rubens (pink wax scale)[3]
Coccus capparidis (capparis soft scale)[3]
Saissetia coffeae (brown scale)[3]
Saissetia neglecta (Caribbean black scale)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0