In 1954, the Netherlands organized its six holdings in the Caribbean into a “constituent country” known as the Netherlands Antilles. This entity was dissolved in 2010 with Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius becoming special municipalities; Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten each became a separate “constituent country.”
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Tectaria incisa - The incised halberd fern is found throughout the Caribbean region and from Florida to Northern Argentina. It prefers moist gullies, ravines, wooded hillsides, hammocks, and oolitic rock formations; hammocks are dense strands of trees and oolitic rock is a sedimentary rock of spherical grains. The halberd fern is typically terrestrial, but on rare occasions can be seen growing as an epiphyte, a plant growing on the surface of another plant and taking needed nutrients from the air, rain or decaying debris found near its base.
