Distribution: Mexico (Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz); Guatemala; Belize; El Salvador; Honduras; Nicaragua; Costa Rica; Panama; Cuba; Jamaica; Hispaniola (Haiti, Dominican Republic); Puerto Rico; Guadeloupe; Dominica; St. Vincent; Grenada; Barbados; Tobago; Trinidad; Colombia (Antioquia, Atlantico, Bolívar, Boyacá, Caldas, Cesar, Chocó, Cundinamarca, La Guajira, Magdalena, Meta, Nariño, Norte de Santander, Putumayo, Santander, Sucre, Tolima, Valle); Venezuela (Aragua, Barinas, Bolívar, Carabobo, Cojedes, Delta Amacuro, Venezuela Distrito Federal, Falcon, Lara, Merida, Miranda, Monagas, Portuguesa, Sucre, Tachira, Yaracuy, Zulia); Guyana; Surinam; French Guiana; Ecuador; Galapagos; Peru; Bolivia (Beni, Cochabamba, La Paz, Pando, Santa Cruz); Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima)
79 MEX 80 BLZ COS ELS GUA HON NIC PAN 81 BBD CUB DOM GDL GRE HIS JAM PUE STV TRT 82 CLM FRG GUY SUR VEN 83 BOL ECU GAL PER 84 BRA
Synonyms: hidden
= Aspidium blechnoides Sm.; Cycl. [A.Rees] (London ed.) 39: no. 11 (1818)
= Aspidium caducum (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Kunth; Nov. Gen. Sp. [H.B.K.] 1: 12 (1816)
= Aspidium gaudichaudii Trevis.; Hedwigia 13: 148 (1874)
= Aspidium hemicardion Trevis.; Hedwigia 13: 148 (1874)
= Aspidium semicordatum (Sw.) Sw.; J. Bot. [Schrader] 1800(2): 31 (1802)
= Aspidium semicordatum var. americanum Hook.; Sp. Fil. [W.J.Hooker] 4: 17 (1862)
= Cyclopeltis semicordata f. crenata I.Losch; Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 1: 23 (1950)
= Dryopteris semicordata (Sw.) Kuntze; Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 813 (1891)
= Hemicardion macrosorum Fée; Mém. Foug. 8 (Icon. Esp. Nouv.): 101 (1857)
= Hemicardion nephrolepis Fée; Mém. Foug. 5 (Gen. Filic.) 282 (1852) (nom. illeg. superfl.)
= Lastrea caduca (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) C.Presl; Tent. Pterid. 77 (1836)
= Lastrea semicordata (Sw.) C.Presl; Tent. Pterid. 77 (1836)
= Nephrodium semicordatum (Sw.) C.Presl; Reliq. Haenk. 1(1): 32 (1825)
= Phanerophlebia semicordata (Sw.) Conz.; Fl. Taxon Mex. [Conzatti] 1(2): 13 (1939)
= Polypodium caducum Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.; Sp. Pl., ed. 4 [Willdenow] 5(1): 193 (1810)
= Polypodium semicordatum Sw.; Prodr. [Swartz] 132 (1788)
= Polystichum semicordatum (Sw.) T.Moore; Index Fil. [T. Moore] 84 (1858)