Name: Water Sprite, Oriental water fern
Distribution: Hungary [I]; Romania [I]; Iran; China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang); South Korea; Japan; Ryukyu Isl.; Taiwan; Nepal; India (Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam State, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal); Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka; Bangladesh; Andaman Isl.; Nicobar Isl.; Myanmar; Thailand (widespread); Laos; Cambodia; Vietnam; peninsular Malaysia (widespread); Singapore [I]; Sumatra; Borneo (Sarawak, Sabah); Brunei; Sulawesi; Palawan; Philippines; Lesser Sunda Isl. (Bali, Sumba, Timor); Bismarck Arch. (Admiralty Isl., New Ireland); Solomon Isl. (Bougainville, Guadalcanal); Australia (N-Western Australia, N-Northern Territory, E-Queensland); Fiji [I]; Hawaii [I] (Kauai [I], Oahu [I]); USA (California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas); Mexico (Chiapas, Veracruz); Guatemala; El Salvador; Honduras; Nicaragua; Costa Rica; Panama; Cuba; Jamaica; Hispaniola (Haiti, Dominican Republic); Puerto Rico; Trinidad; Colombia (Antioquia, Bolívar, Chocó, Meta); Venezuela (Anzoategui, Aragua, Bolívar, Delta Amacuro, Falcon, Guarico, Miranda, Sucre, Tachira, Zulia); Guyana; Surinam; French Guiana; Ecuador; Brazil (Alagoas, Amazonas, Amapá, Bahia, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondônia, Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Sergipe)
11 hun 13 rom 34 IRN 36 CHI 38 JAP KOR NNS TAI 40 BAN IND NEP SRL 41 AND CBD LAO MYA NCB THA VIE 42 BOR BRN LSI MLY PHI PLW sng SUL SUM 43 BIS SOL 50 AUS 60 fij 63 haw 76 USA 77 USA 78 USA 79 MEX 80 COS ELS GUA HON NIC PAN 81 CUB HIS JAM PUE TRT 82 CLM FRG GUY SUR VEN 83 ECU 84 BRA
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= Acrostichum siliquosum L.; Sp. Pl. 2: 1070 (1753)
= Acrostichum thalictroides L.; Sp. Pl. 2: 1070 (1753)
= Belvisia siliquosa (L.) Mirb.; Hist. Nat. Veg. [Lamarck & Mirbel] 3: 473 (1802)
= Ceratopteris froesii Brade; Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 18: 31, t. 1 (1965)
= Ceratopteris richardi Brongn.; Dict. Class d´Hist. Nat. 8: 351 (1823)
= Ceratopteris siliquosa (L.) Copel.; Philipp. J. Sci. 56: 107 (1935)
= Ceratopteris succulenta (Roxb.) Fraser-Jenk.; Taxon. Revis. Indian Subcontinental Pteridophytes 415 (2008)
= Cryptogenis ferulacea Rich.; ms.
= Ellobocarpus oleraceus Kaulf.; Enum. Filic. [Kaulfuss] 148 (1824)
= Furcaria thalictroides (L.) Desv.; Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris 6(2): 292 (1827)
= Naias obvoluta Blanco; 460 (1845)
= Pteris ferulacea Rich. ex Kaulf.; (1824)
= Pteris siliquosa (L.) P.Beauv.; Beauv., Fl. Oware 1: 63 (1804)
= Pteris succulenta Roxb.; Calcutta J. Nat. Hist. 4: 508 (1844)
= Pteris thalictroides (L.) Sw.; J. Bot. (Schrader) 1800(2): 65 (1801)
= Teleozoma thalictroides (L.) R.Br. ex H.Richards; Narr. Journey Polar Sea [Franklin] 767 (1823)