Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XI. Gleicheniaceae Author Kessler, Michael Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH- 8008 Zurich, Switzerland Author Smith, Alan R. University Herbarium, 1001 Valley Life Sciences Bldg. # 2465, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 - 2465 text Phytotaxa 2018 2018-03-13 344 1 53 63 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.7 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.344.1.7 1179-3163 13720573 Sticherus bifidus (Willd.) Ching, Sunyatsenia 5(4): 282. 1940 . = Gleichenia bifida (Willd.) Spreng., Syst. Veg. [Sprengel] 4(1): 27. 1827 . Range: Cuba ; Panama to Trinidad and Tobago , Guyana , and along the Andes to Bolivia (CO, LP, SC); central and southeastern Brazil . Ecology: —Locally abundant; in forests, clearings, and along roadsides, often forming large, pure colonies but also mixed within other shrubby vegetation; (325) 750–2750 m .