Ceratopteris Brongn.

Native to:

Alabama, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, California, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, Korea, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Malaya, Mali, Marianas, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Northern Territory, Oman, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Solomon Is., Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Venezuela, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Austria, Fiji, Hawaii, Romania

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Balkrishna, A., Joshi, B., Sribastava, A., Shankar, R. & Shukla, B.K. (2019). Classification of extant Pteridophytes: a new approach. Indian Fern Journal 36: 311-341.
• Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Flora of Somalia

• Adumbr. 5: 647–652 (1957).
• Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: [updated by M. Thulin 2008]