Pecluma dispersa (A. M. Evans) M. G. Price

Pecluma dispersa frequently occurs as widely scattered clusters of small juveniles on mossy limestone, arising vegetatively from exposed roots of older plants.

Stems 4--6 mm diam.; scales blackish, linear-lanceolate. Leaves erect or arching. Petiole black, 1/4--1/3 length of blade, hairs short, mostly simple, multicellular; scales deltate to linear, base broadly hastate-lacerate. Blade narrowly ovate, 20--70 × 5--11 cm; base narrowly truncate; apex acute. Segments narrowly ovate to linear, 3--5 mm wide; segments at base of blade abruptly reduced, usually reflexed. Veins 1--2-forked. Sori round or oval, sporangia with 32 spores. n = 2 n = 111, apogamous.

Fla.; Mexico; West Indies; Central America; South America to s Brazil.

Sporulating all year. Usually on limestone outcrops, occasionally epiphytic in hammocks; 0m.

Polypodium dispersum A. M. Evans, Amer. Fern J. 58: 173, plate 27. 1968