Acrostichum aureum - Golden Leather Fern - Biodiversity of Singapore

Taxonomic tree

Kingdom Plantae 2414 Phylum Tracheophyta 2407 Class Polypodiopsida 101 Subclass Polypodiidae 96 Order Polypodiales 76 Suborder Pteridineae 15 Family Pteridaceae 15 Subfamily Ceratopteridoideae 3 Genus Acrostichum 2

Acrostichum aureum

Acrostichum speciosum

Native

Acrostichum aureum L. Species

Golden Leather Fern

Native herb species. Common.

Other common names

Coarse Swamp Fern en, Leather Fern en, 卤蕨 zh.

Distribution

American Samoa, Angola, Australia, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Brunei, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malaysia, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Reunion, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, The Bahamas, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, United States, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna and Zimbabwe.