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Scientific Name
Grammitis billardierei
Family Name
GRAMMITIDACEAE
Common Name
Finger fern
Status
Height
0.05m - 0.16m (5-16cm) long
Flowers
None
Fruit
Spores
Form
Small fern growing on tree trunks, tree-ferns, and mossy boulders. Rootstock erect to short-creeping.
Municipalities
Break O'Day; Burnie; Central Coast; Central Highlands; Circular Head; Derwent Valley; Dorset; Flinders Island; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; Hobart; Huon Valley; Kentish; King Island; Kingborough; Latrobe; Launceston; Meander Valley; Northern Midlands; Sorell; Southern Midlands; Tasman; Waratah-Wynyard; West Coast; West Tamar
Communities
Fern Gullies; Rainforest; Riparian; Wet Eucalypt Forest
Habitat Notes
Widespread and common in fern gullies, wet sclerophyll forest, rainforest and sheltered rock outcrops, extending to high altitudes. Grows on mossy logs and rocks or is epiphytic on Dicksonia trunks and the lower branches and trunks of trees. One of the first non-terrestrial ferns to re-establish after fire or logging.
Site Tolerance
Moist; Rocky; Shady; Moist and shady
Frost Tolerance
Soil Tolerance
Grows on vertical branches or tree trunks
General Notes
There is no record of the species being raised successfully from spores under the usual propagating procedures. Suitable below powerlines.
Propagation Details
Propagation Calendar
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Sowing Months
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Cutting Months
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Seed Information
Seed Collection
Spores: on the back of the fronds are tiny elliptical patches, obliquely angled with respect to the mid-vein, which produce spores
Seed Treatment Method
Seed Storage Life
Viable Seeds Per Gram
Seed Treatment Notes
There is no record of the species being raised succussfully from spores under the usual propagating procedures.
Germination Time
Suitable for Direct Seeding
Cuttings
Expected Time to Take Root
Expected Time to Plant Out
Propagation by Division
N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.
Cutting Notes
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