Family Index

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Scientific Name

Lindsaea trichomanoides

Family Name

LINDSAEACEAE

Common Name

Oval wedge-fern

Status

Rare

Height

0.25m (25cm)

Flowers

None

Fruit

Spores

Form

Fern; fronds, usually bipinnate in the lower part, on wiry, shiny reddish stipes; rhizome short-creeping; pinnae oval or obovste..

Municipalities

Burnie; Clarence; Derwent Valley; Hobart; Huon Valley; Kingborough; Tasman; West Coast

Communities

Rainforest

Habitat Notes

A rare rainforest species of western and southern Tasmania. A terrestrial species of very dark, moist and sheltered situations but also found on rotting logs and as a low epiphyte on Nothofagus cunninghamii nd Lagarostrobos franklinii.

Site Tolerance

Moist; Rocky; Shady

Frost Tolerance

Soil Tolerance

Well-drained; Epiphyte; Rotting logs

General Notes

Suitable below powerlines.

Propagation Details

Propagation Calendar

Flowering Months

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Seed Collecting Months

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Sowing Months

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Cutting Months

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Dec

Seed Information

Seed Collection

Sori marginal.spores are collected when mature on the frond. unripe sori are generally light green then change to yellowish brown and to dark brown or black when mature

Seed Treatment Method

Seed Storage Life

Viable Seeds Per Gram

Seed Treatment Notes

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

Difficult to grow.