Distribution: Mexico (Chiapas, Veracruz, Oaxaca); Guatemala; Belize; El Salvador; Honduras; Nicaragua; Costa Rica; Isla del Coco; Panama; Cuba; Jamaica; Hispaniola (Haiti, Dominican Republic); Puerto Rico; Saba; Nevis; St. Kitts; Montserrat; Guadeloupe; Dominica; Martinique; St. Lucia; St. Vincent; Grenada; Trinidad; Colombia (Antioquia, Boyacá, Caquetá, Chocó, Guainía, Guaviare, La Guajira, Magdalena, Nariño, Risaralda, Valle); Venezuela (Amazonas, Aragua, Barinas, Bolívar, Venezuela Distrito Federal, Falcon, Lara, Merida, Miranda, Nueva Esparta, Portuguesa, Sucre, Tachira, Trujillo, Yaracuy, Zulia); Guyana; Surinam; French Guiana; Ecuador; Peru; Bolivia (Beni, Cochabamba, La Paz, Santa Cruz); Brazil (Amazonas, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Pará, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, São Paulo)
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= Acrostichum cervinum (L.) Sw.; Syn. Fil. (Kiliae) [O.Swartz] 14, 200 (1806)
= Acrostichum cervinum var. corcovadense (Raddi) Baker; Syn. Fil. [W.J.Hooker & Baker] 416 (1868)
= Acrostichum linearifolium C.Presl; Delic. Prag. 1: 159 (1822)
= Acrostichum olfersia Endl.; Cat. Horti Vindob. 1: 2 (1842)
= Dorcapteris cervina (L.) C.Presl; Abh. Königl. Böhm. Ges. Wiss., Ser. 5, 6 [Epim. Bot.]: 176 (1851)
= Elaphoglossum cinctum Rosenst.; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 25: 63 (1928)
= Olfersia cervina var. corcovadensis (Raddi) Hook.; Fil. Exot., t. 43 (1858)
= Olfersia corcovadensis Kaulf. ex Raddi; Opusc. Sci. 3: 283, t. 11, f. b (1819)
= Osmunda cervina L.; Sp. Pl. [Linnaeus] 2: 1065 (1753)
= Polybotrya cervina (L.) Kaulf.; Berlin. Jahrb. Pharm. Verbundenen Wiss. 21: 32 (1820), et Enum. Filic. 55 (1824)
= Polybotrya cervina f. transitoria Rosenst.; Hedwigia 46: 156 (1907)
= Polybotrya corcovadensis (Kaulf. ex Raddi) Spreng.; Syst. Veg., ed. 16 [Sprengel] 4(1): 33 (1827)
= Polybotrya raddiana Kaulf. ex Link; Hort. Berol. [Link] 2: 134 (1833), nom. illeg. superfl. for Olfersia corcovadensis Kaulf. ex Raddi
= Pteris ophioglossoides Vell.; Arq. Mus. Nac. Rio de Janeiro 5: 451 (1881)