Sticherus furcatus (L.) Ching (1940: 283) .

Acrostichum furcatum Linnaeus (1759: 1321) . Mertensia furcata (L.) Willdenow (1804: 166) . Gleichenia furcata (L.) Sprengel (1827: 26) . Type (designated by Proctor, 1977):—MARTINIQUE. Morne de la Calebasse, Plumier, Descr. Pl. Amér. tab. 20. 1693.

Mertensia palmata W.Schaffn. ex E.Fourn. in Schaffner (1857: 40). Gleichenia palmata (W.Schaffn. ex E.Fourn) Moore (1862: 380) . Dicranopteris palmata (W.Schaffn. ex E.Fourn.) Underwood (1907: 259) . Sticherus palmatus (W.Schaffn. ex E.Fourn.) Copeland (1947: 28) . Type: — MEXICO. 1857, Schaffner s.n. (holotype P!, photo US!).

Distribution and ecology: —Mountains of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Cuba, Jamaica, and Martinique. Wet montane forests at 800–2400 m on the mainland, and 750–1600 m on the Caribbean Islands.