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Campyloneurum costatum (Kunze) C. Presl
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Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
Reasons: Distributed from Greater Antilles except Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and continental tropical America from southern Mexico to Ecuador; locally frequent (Proctor, 1985). Rare in Florida.
In the flora Campyloneurum costatum is currently known only from Collier County, Florida. It had formerly been reported from Dade County, where it now may have been extirpated.
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United States
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
Global Range: FLORIDA, WEST INDIES, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND VENEZUELA, COLOMBIA, AND ECUADOR IN SOUTH AMERICA. IN FLORIDA, KNOWN ONLY FROM COLLIER COUNTY.
Fla.; West Indies; Central America; South America in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador.
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Stems short-creeping, 2--5 mm diam. Leaves few, arching to pendent, stiff. Petiole 4--15 cm. Blade dark green, linear-elliptic or linear-oblanceolate, 20--40 × 2.5--6 cm, leathery; base acuminate; margins shallowly sinuate to undulate; apex abruptly caudate-acuminate. Veins obscure, primary veins obscure, slightly to strongly curved, areoles in 4--8 series between costa and margin, with usually 2 free included veinlets per areole. Sori in 1--several rows on each side of costa. 2 n = 74.
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Polypodium costatum Kunze, Linnaea 9: 38. 1834
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Comments: TRUNKS, BASES, AND BRANCHES OF ROUGH-BARKED TREES IN STRAND SWAMPS AND HAMMOCKS.
Epiphytic in swamps, on various rough-barked trees; substrate subacid; 0m.
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Note: For many non-migratory species, occurrences are roughly equivalent to populations.
Estimated Number of Occurrences: 81 to >300