Ceratopteris thalictroides
Also known as: Ellobocarpus oleraceous, Teleozoma thalictroides
Species profile
- Accepted name
- Ceratopteris thalictroides (L.) Brongn. Species
- Common names
- antler fern, horn fern, Indian fern, oriental waterfern, water fern, water horn fern, water sprite, Watersprite
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Division
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Polypodiopsida
- Order
- Polypodiales
- Family
- Pteridaceae
- Genus
- Ceratopteris
- Habitat
- Terrestrial, Freshwater; Freshwater-terrestrial
- Distribution
- Guadeloupe; Caribbean; North America; Oceania; Ciénaga de montaño, corregimiento de Montaño, Carmen del Darién
- Basionym
- Acrostichum thalictroides L.
- Published in
- Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 1821: 186 (1821)
Media and observations
Acrostichum siliquosum L., Pteris thalictroides (L.) Sw., P. siliquosum (L.) P. Beauv., P. cornuta P. Beauv., Ceratopteris gaudichaudii Brongn., C. cornuta (P. Beauv.) Lepr, C. siliquosa (L.) Copel, C. thalictroides Schelpe var. thalictroides, C. thalictroides var. cornuta (P. Beauv.) Schelpe (The Pteridaceae family diversity in Togo)
Togo (Ecological Zones 2, 3 and 5), USA, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Ecuador, Brazil, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, Australia, Taiwan, China, Japan, Ryukyu Isl., India, Andaman Isl., Nicobar Isl., Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Sulawesi, Hawaii (I) (Kauai (I), Oahu (I)), Fiji (I), Micronesia, Palau Isl., Southern Marianas, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Zanzibar, Somalia, Sudan, Congo, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Ethiopia (The Pteridaceae family diversity in Togo)
GBIF Secretariat (2023). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-10-05. Accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/2651586 https://www.gbif.org/species/2651586 · Last updated Oct 5, 2026, 3:32 AM