Adiantum latifolium Lam., Encycl. 1: 43 1783. (syn: Adiantum brasiliense Link; Adiantum denticulatum Sw.; Adiantum denticulatum var. humile Kuhn; Adiantum denticulatum var. obtusum Mett. ex Kuhn; Adiantum elatum Desv.; Adiantum fovearum Raddi; Adiantum fovearum var. major Rosenst.; Adiantum fovearum var. reductum Jenman; Adiantum glaziovii Baker; Adiantum intermedium var. medioximum Christ; Adiantum intermedium var. triangulatum (Kaulf.) T.Moore; Adiantum latifolium var. grisebachianum Domin; Adiantum lucidum var. bipinnatum Mett. ex E.Fourn.; Adiantum sordidum Lindm.; Adiantum triangulatum Kaulf.; Adiantum triangulatum var. acuminatum Jenman);
. Argentina Northeast, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Central American Pac, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is.; Introduced into: Andaman Is., Bangladesh, India, Malaya, Nicobar Is., Sri Lanka, Thailand as per POWO;
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This is the adventive South American species, Adiantum latifolium Lam., common throughout South India as a weed on roadside banks etc., but has not spread to north India.
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