HYMENOPHYLLACEAE

Narrow filmy-fern

 

0.05m - 0.15m (5-15cm) 

None 

Spores 

Fern; rootstock much-branched, creeping thread-like; fronds pinnate, light green, pendulous, narrow, indusium 2-lipped. 

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

Fern Gullies; Rainforest; Wet Eucalypt Forest 

Widespread and abundant in rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest and fern gullies from sea- level to subalpine areas. Terrestrial on logs and rocks, or epiphytic on trees and Dicksonia. Will tolerate excessively shaded situations such as 'horizontal scrub'. In these conditions fronds are long and slender with little segmentation. 

Moist; Rocky; Shady 

 

Logs and rocks; Trees and dicksonia 

Suitable below powerlines. 

Unripe sori are generally light green then change to yellowish brown and to dark brown or black when mature.collect mature fronds on folded paper and keep in warm dry place until spores are shed 

 

 

 

 

 

No 

 

 

Yes 

Propagate by division. Can be grown on a slab of tree-fern fibre in a terrrium.