Nephrolepis cordifolia

Nephrolepis cordifolia - habitus

Nephrolepis cordifolia is a species of the genus sword ferns ( Nephrolepis ). It is native to the tropics, however, is a popular houseplant.

Description

Nephrolepis cordifolia is reached an evergreen fern plant height between 40 and 80 centimeters, in extreme cases, up to 1 meter. It forms from an underground rhizome in the form of several small tubers. The feathery fronds stand erect and are linear to lanceolate, glandular and simply pinnate. The rachis carries two colored chaff shed.

The leaflets are entire, sessile and oblong- lanceolate. They are up to 4.8 inches long and up to 0.9 cm wide. They stand at a distance of less than 1 centimeter. The sori are round. The spores are tuberculate, wrinkled.

Ecology

Nephrolepis cordifolia can grow both terrestrially and as an epiphyte. As an epiphyte, the type is very rare.

Dissemination

Nephrolepis cordifolia course occurs in Australia and on the slopes of the Himalayas. However, as a neophyte, the type was in parts of the United States (Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Hawaii ) as well as in New Zealand, spread to the Azores and the Society Islands. In the U.S., the species is fought as an invasive plant.

She loves moist, shady locations and is often found in swamps and floodplains in coniferous forests.