Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn ssp. caudatum (L.) Bonap.
Pteridium caudatum (L.) Maxon
Southern brackenfern
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Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn var. caudatum (L.) Sadebeck
Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn ssp. caudatum (L.) Bonap.
Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn ssp. caudatum (L.) Bonap.
4/11/2015 · Loop Road, Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida · ≈ 15 × 10″ (37 × 25 cm) 
4/11/2015 · Loop Road, Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida · ≈ 10 × 15″ (25 × 37 cm) 
| Kingdom | Plantae | Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin) |
| Subkingdom | Tracheobionta | Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients |
| Division | Pteridophyta | Ferns |
| Class | Filicopsida | “Leptosporangiate” (has to do with how their spores form) ferns—includes most ferns |
| Order | Polypodiales | Polypod ferns |
| Family | Dennstaedtiaceae | After August William Dennstedt (1776-1826), German physician and botanist, burgomaster of Magdala, director of the Belvedere garden near Weimar, and author of a work entitled Hortus Belvedereanus, a compilation of some 1500 plants. I have no information as to why the family name is spelled differently than his name |
| Genus | Pteridium | A diminutive of Pteris, a fern genus |
| Species | caudatum |
Pteridium caudatum description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.
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