Other countries it is native to include the Southeastern United States, Cuba, Costa Rica, Bolivia, and Venezuela.

It has a relatively large rhizome from which many fine rootlets covered in dark reddish-brown scales grow.

[4] It is known to grow as an epiphyte on Platypodium elegans, Ceiba pentandra, Tabebuia guayacan, Anacardium excelsum,[6] Socratea exorrhiza, Marila laxiflora and Perebea xanthochyma.

[8] Campyloneurum phyllitidis was grown in England during the Victorian era, when ferns were particularly popular (the phenomenon known as pteridomania).

The fern was described by an author of the time, Shirley Hibberd, as being "very distinct" and that it formed a "striking object when grown well".