United States

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Present

Confidence: Confident

Type of Residency: Year-round

Global Range: Dade county, Florida; there is a questioned report from the Bahamas (Correll & Correll).

Type collection for Tectaria amesiana A.A. Eaton
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Verified from the card file of type specimens
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): A. A. Eaton
Locality: Florida, United States, North America

Comments: Possibly in tropical hammock, pineland, sink?.

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

Estimated Number of Occurrences: 1 - 5

Comments: Florida: one occurrence from 1940. Also reported from Bahamas by Long & Lakela (1971), without details; Correll & Correll (Fl. Bahamas) question that report.

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable

Rounded Global Status Rank: GNA - Not Applicable

Reasons: Unclear whether this is a "good" species (Kartesz checklist, 1994) or a hybrid (Flora of North America, 1993; Kartesz, 1999); unclear whether endemic to Florida or also known from the Bahamas. Apparently no recent records from Bahamas; one old report is questioned. Only Florida report is from 1940. The Florida Natural Areas Inventory tracks this element as a hybrid.

Comments: Treated as a hybrid by Kartesz (1999 floristic synthesis). USFWS ('C2' status) and Kartesz (checklist 1994) considered a good species.