GRAMMITIDACEAE

Finger fern

 

0.05m - 0.16m (5-16cm) long 

None 

Spores 

Small fern growing on tree trunks, tree-ferns, and mossy boulders. Rootstock erect to short-creeping. 

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 

Fern Gullies; Rainforest; Riparian; Wet Eucalypt Forest 

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. 

Moist; Rocky; Shady; Moist and shady 

 

Grows on vertical branches or tree trunks 

There is no record of the species being raised successfully from spores under the usual propagating procedures. Suitable below powerlines. 

Spores: on the back of the fronds are tiny elliptical patches, obliquely angled with respect to the mid-vein, which produce spores 

 

 

 

There is no record of the species being raised succussfully from spores under the usual propagating procedures.