''Sceptridium jenmanii'', the Alabama grapefern or Dixie grapefern, is a species of fern in the
Ophioglossaceae native to the southeastern United States.
It is a rare species, and is apparently in decline.
Like other grape ferns, it depends on a
mycorrhizal
A mycorrhiza (from Greek μύκης ', "fungus", and ῥίζα ', "root"; pl. mycorrhizae, mycorrhiza or mycorrhizas) is a symbiotic association between a fungus and a plant. The term mycorrhiza refers to the role of the fungus in the plan ...
association in the soil to survive.
References
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Ophioglossaceae
Ferns of the United States
Taxa named by Lucien Marcus Underwood