Adiantum patens
A maidenhair fern of seasonally dry forest from western Mexico through Central America to Ecuador, the Galapagos and Bolivia, most often recorded around 1000–1400 m. Its range has a sharp five-month dry season, so it is tougher about drying than rainforest maidenhairs but still wants shade and even moisture while growing.
Where it grows wild
Recorded mostly from Pacific-slope Mexico and Central America at mid elevations, where forest is seasonally dry; typical Adiantum habitat there is shaded banks, ravines and rocky slopes under deciduous or oak-pine forest. Microhabitat is inferred from the genus and the measured climate, not from a species account.
205–2790 m, median 1200 m across 352 dated records.
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