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Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Acrostichum excelsum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Acrostichum excelsum, Maxon (A. lomarioides, Jenman). Similar in size to preceding: sterile lvs. also similar. Distinguished by having sporangia on all the pinnae of the fertile lvs. Fla. to Brazil. Acrostichum has been considered to include a much larger array of species, including, as in the previous editions of the Cyclopedia of Horticulture, ferns of very diverse form and habit of growth. Fern students, however, are now united in distributing the species of Acrostichum as formerly understood among several genera. Thus the species included in Acrostichum in the former Cyclopedia are here grouped in several genera as follows: Acrostichum: (as above). Elaphoglossum: conforme, crinitum, flaccidum, gorgoneum, muscosum, pilosum, reticulatum, simplex, squamosum, vicosum, villosum; Leptochilus: alienum, nicotianaefolium; Olfersia:cervina; Polybotrya: osmundacea; Rhipidopteris: peltata; Stenochlaena: scandens, sorbifolia. R. C. Benedict. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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 Acrostichum excelsum, Maxon (A. lomarioides, Jenman). Similar in size to preceding: sterile lvs. also similar. Distinguished by having sporangia on all the pinnae of the fertile lvs. Fla. to Brazil.
+Acrostichum has been considered to include a much larger array of species, including, as in the previous editions of the Cyclopedia of Horticulture, ferns of very diverse form and habit of growth. Fern students, however, are now united in distributing the species of Acrostichum as formerly understood among several genera. Thus the species included in Acrostichum in the former Cyclopedia are here grouped in several genera as follows: Acrostichum: (as above). Elaphoglossum: conforme, crinitum, flaccidum, gorgoneum, muscosum, pilosum, reticulatum, simplex, squamosum, vicosum, villosum; Leptochilus: alienum, nicotianaefolium; Olfersia:cervina; Polybotrya: osmundacea; Rhipidopteris: peltata; Stenochlaena: scandens, sorbifolia. R. C. Benedict.
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