About Lygodium flexuosum (L.) Sw.
Lygodium flexuosum, commonly called the flexuose climbing fern, is a rhizomatous perennial climbing fern. It is native to tropical and subtropical Asia and northern Australia. Thin, wiry twining and climbing fronds grow from horizontal rhizomes and stolons that lie on or below the ground. Its pinnae are arranged oppositely and shaped like triangles. Fertile pinnae have finger-like projections along their margins that hold sporangia, which produce spores. Unlike flowering plants, this fern reproduces via spores, and it often forms dense vine-like growth in wet tropical habitats.
