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Scientific Name
Lastreopsis acuminata
Family Name
DRYOPTERIDACEAE
Common Name
Shiny shield-fern
Status
Height
0.9m (90cm) long
Flowers
None
Fruit
Spores
Form
Fern; rhizome, tufted c. brown scales ; fronds, arching on stipes as long as frond dark green, shiny, usually bipinnatifid.
Municipalities
Break O'Day; Burnie; Central Coast; Derwent Valley; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; Hobart; Huon Valley; Kentish; King Island; Kingborough; Launceston; Meander Valley; Tasman; Waratah-Wynyard; West Coast; West Tamar
Communities
Fern Gullies; Rainforest; Wet Eucalypt Forest
Habitat Notes
Not common but often locally abundant across northern Tasmania, scattered and coastal elsewhere. Grows typically under dark and sheltered conditions beside running water, from soil or rock in rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest and fern gullies from sea-level to 200m, rarely to 400m.
Site Tolerance
Moist; Rocky; Shady
Frost Tolerance
Soil Tolerance
Fertile; Well-drained
General Notes
Appears to have the greatest low-light tolerance for spore germination of all Tasmanian pteridophytes. Plants, sporelings and gametophytes have been observed in grottos and cave entrances in conditions almost too dark for the naked eye. Suitable below powerlines.
Propagation Details
Propagation Calendar
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Seed Information
Seed Collection
Sori halfway between midvein and margin, indusium dark brown, kidney-shaped. spores are blackish and shed fairly quickly. brown sporangia remain on the fronds, giving false appearance of fertile material
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Suitable for Direct Seeding
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Propagation by Division
N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.
Cutting Notes
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