Landscape Uses:
	Primarily recommended for natural landscapes and habitat restorations.
Ecological Restoration Notes:
	Limited to exposed moist limestone in rockland hammocks with constantly high humidity. The lowered water table in South Florida make this a difficult species to incorporate into restoration projects.
Availability:
	Grown by enthusiasts.
Description:
	Small herbaceous fern.
Height:
	Pendent, the leaves about 2-6 inches in length. Spreading across the limestone and forming small or sometimes large colonies.
Growth Rate:
	Slow.
Range:
	Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties, and disjust to Volusia County where first collected in 2008; West Indies and Central America. Extremely rare north of the Miami River.
Habitats:
	Rockland hammocks.
Soils:
	Moist limestone rock, with or without an accumulation of humusy material.
Nutritional Requirements:
	Moderate; can grow in nutrient poor soils, but needs some organic content to thrive.
Salt Water Tolerance:
	Low; does not tolerate flooding by salt or brackish water.
Salt Wind Tolerance:
	Low; salt wind may burn the leaves.
Drought Tolerance:
	Low; requires moist to wet soils and is intolerant of long periods of drought.
Light Requirements:
	Light shade to moderate shade.
Flower Color:
	N/A.
Flower Characteristics:
	There are no flowers; the plants reproduce by spores.
Flowering Season:
	All year.
Fruit:
	Inconspicuous spores.
Wildlife and Ecology:
Horticultural Notes:
	Can be grown from spores. Very difficult to grow.
Comments:
	It is listed as endangered by the state of Florida. See also Florida Natural Areas Inventory's Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Florida page (Chafin 2000).