Name: Hand Fern
Distribution: USA (C-Florida, S-Florida, very rare); Mexico (Chiapas, Oaxaca, Puebla); Guatemala; Belize; Honduras; Nicaragua; Costa Rica; Panama; Cuba; Jamaica; Hispaniola (Haiti, Dominican Republic); Puerto Rico; Montserrat; Guadeloupe; Trinidad; Colombia (Antioquia, Boyacá, Chocó, Huila, Magdalena, Meta, Nariño, Norte de Santander, Risaralda, Valle, Vaupés); Venezuela (Amazonas, Aragua, Bolívar, Delta Amacuro, Merida, Miranda, Yaracuy); Guyana; Surinam; Ecuador; Galapagos; Peru; Bolivia (Cochabamba, La Paz, Santa Cruz, Tarija); Brazil (Amazonas, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, São Paulo); Argentina (Misiones)
78 USA 79 MEX 80 BLZ COS GUA HON NIC PAN 81 CUB GDL HIS JAM MTS PUE TRT 82 CLM GUY SUR VEN 83 BOL ECU GAL PER 84 BRA 85 ARG
Synonyms: hidden
= Cheiroglossa austrobrasiliensis Brade; Bradea 1: 30, t. 1, 2 (1970)
= Ophioderma palmata (L.) Nakai; Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 39(463): 193 (1925), isonym
= Ophioderma palmatum (L.) Miers; Proc. Roy. Hort. Soc. London 3: 348 (1863)
= Ophioglossum palmatum L.; Sp. Pl. [Linnaeus] 2: 1106 (1753)
= Ophioglossum palmatum var. laciniatum Kuhn; Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 24: 146 (1897)
