LYCOPODIACEAE

Long clubmoss

 

0.1m (10cm) long 

None 

Spores 

Stems erect or hanging, sometimes branching, leaves in spiral, overlapping, upright, lance-shaped. 

Break O'Day; Burnie; Central Coast; Central Highlands; Derwent Valley; Dorset; Flinders Island; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; Glenorchy; Hobart; Huon Valley; Kentish; Kingborough; Meander Valley; Northern Midlands; Sorell; Tasman; Waratah-Wynyard; West Coast 

Coastal Vegetation; Montane Vegetation; Rainforest 

Widespread in Tasmania but seldom locally abundant. A variable species ranging from stunted upright plants on the coast and on mountain summits above 1000m to long pendulous plants in deep shade within rainforest. Usually terrestrial, but may be lithophytic and sometimes epiphytic. 

Exposed; Moist; Shady; Windy 

 

Fertile; Poor; Sandy; Well-drained; Epiphytic or lithophytic 

Tassel ferns require a coarse potting mix that gives excellent drainage and aeration. Fern fibres, pine bark, orchid bark, charcoal, coarse gravel and polystyrene balls or chips are suitable. Suitable below powerlines. 

Sporangia borne in the axils of sporophylls 

 

 

 

 

 

No 

 

 

 

Roots of the upright species of this family are initiated at the growing tip and grow downward to emerge from the base of the plant. Thus, it is possible to propagate epiphytic species of the family from tip cuttings. It is not yet known whether this method can be used in cultivation for this Tasmanian species.