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§1 Plant
Macrothelypteris torresiana (Gaudich.) Ching
vernacular swordfern — species · Thelypteridaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Fern
- Family
- Thelypteridaceae Ching ex Pic. Serm.
- Genus
- Macrothelypteris
Native status, by region
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- NAV Navassa Island Introduced
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Native
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
County-level range
· 130 counties across 7 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 130 counties across 7 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 18 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 32 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Baker 12003
- Brevard 12009
- Broward 12011
- Citrus 12017
- Duval 12031
- Escambia 12033
- Hardee 12049
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Jackson 12063
- Lake 12069
- Liberty 12077
- Manatee 12081
- Marion 12083
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Nassau 12089
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Osceola 12097
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Pinellas 12103
- Polk 12105
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Seminole 12117
- St. Johns 12109
- Sumter 12119
- Suwannee 12121
- Volusia 12127
Georgia view state ↗ 36 I ▾
- Baker 13007
- Berrien 13019
- Brooks 13027
- Bulloch 13031
- Candler 13043
- Charlton 13049
- Clarke 13059
- Coffee 13069
- Colquitt 13071
- Cook 13075
- Coweta 13077
- Echols 13101
- Grady 13131
- Harris 13145
- Heard 13149
- Houston 13153
- Irwin 13155
- Jackson 13157
- Jasper 13159
- Laurens 13175
- Lee 13177
- Long 13183
- Lowndes 13185
- Mitchell 13205
- Muscogee 13215
- Pike 13231
- Putnam 13237
- Randolph 13243
- Seminole 13253
- Spalding 13255
- Taylor 13269
- Terrell 13273
- Thomas 13275
- Ware 13299
- Webster 13307
- Wheeler 13309
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 26 I ▾
- Allen 22003
- Bienville 22013
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Iberia 22045
- LaSalle 22059
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Ouachita 22073
- St. Helena 22091
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Washington 22117
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/MATO3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/8846035 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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