Bahamas

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

Cuba

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

Jamaica

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

United States

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Absent

Confidence: Confident

Type of Residency: Year-round

Global Range: West Indies (Upper Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica) and Florida (Dade county). This range might be inaccurate.

Tectaria coriandrifolia is known in North America only from southernmost Florida; it has not been seen there for several years and is perhaps extirpated. It hybridizes with Tectaria fimbriata to form T . × amesiana A. A. Eaton [ Aspidium trifoliatum (Linnaeus) Swartz var. amesianum (A. A. Eaton) Clute], which may be distinguished by its misshapen spores, fewer pinnae pairs, and dense row of hairs on the adaxial surface of the petioles. The hybrid is known only from Florida.

Stems decumbent, compact. Petiole tan to reddish brown, often shorter than to rarely equaling blade, pubescent on both surfaces, scaly; scales narrowly deltate or lanceolate, 2--5 × 0.1--0.2 mm. Blade lanceolate to oblong, 1-pinnate-pinnatifid, 5--12 × 2.5--10 cm. Rachis and costae pubescent abaxially. Pinnae 1--8 pairs, margins crenate to pinnatifid, 1.2--5 cm, base rounded, often with proliferous buds in axils. Areoles lacking included veinlets. Indusia round-reniform, attached at sinus. 2 n = 80 (Jamaica).

Tectaria coriandrifolia may be characterized by basal pinnae equilateral, not cut away at the lower base, never adnate to the rachis at the upper base; hairs on the stipes mostly 1-3 mm long (Lellinger, 1985).

Aspidium coriandrifolium Swartz, J. Bot. (Schrader) 1800(2): 36. 1801

Comments: Ledges, crevices, and near-vertical, shaded sides of deep limestone sinkhole pits.

Sinkholes, rock, ledges, crevices; 0 m; Fla.; West Indies in Cuba, Jamaica.

Note: For many non-migratory species, occurrences are roughly equivalent to populations.

Estimated Number of Occurrences: 1 - 5

Comments: Only one Florida site known, last record in 1935. Reported by USFWS (Fed.Reg. 30Sep94) from the Bahamas, Cuba, and Jamaica as well, but number of occurrences outside Florida is unknown.

Bahamas

Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked

Cuba

Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked

Jamaica

Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: NX - Presumed Extirpated

Rounded Global Status Rank: G3 - Vulnerable

Reasons: This species has narrow habitat requirements and relatively small range. It is known from Cuba, the Bahamas, Jamaica, and (historically) south Florida. The Florida Natural Areas Inventory has only one extirpated occurrence (dated 1935) in its database. Habitat destruction and, to some extent, over-collection, have contributed to the species' decline.

Comments: Habitat destruction; over-collecting.