About Adiantum latifolium Lam.
Adiantum latifolium, commonly known as the broadleaf maidenhair, is a species of maidenhair fern belonging to the family Pteridaceae. It was first formally described in 1783 in the work Encyclopédie méthodique Botanique. This species is native to a large geographic range that extends from southern Mexico through Central America and across much of tropical South America, and also grows naturally on multiple Caribbean islands. Its confirmed native distribution includes the following regions and countries: Northeast Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, and the Leeward and Windward Islands. The species has also been introduced to South and Southeast Asia, specifically the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaya. Adiantum latifolium is a rhizomatous geophyte that grows primarily in wet tropical biomes.
