Antrophyum austroqueenslandicum D.L.Jones APNI* Fronds with a prominent very narrowly winged stipe 2–7 cm long. Lamina narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 4–8 cm long, 5–9 mm wide, tapered to each end, semi-erect to pendent, slightly falcate, coriaceous, dark green and shiny above, paler beneath; margins slightly irregular; apex broadly obtuse in sterile fronds, attenuate and subobtuse in fertile fronds; venation obscure, with long narrow areoles.
Sori spreading for a short distance along the main veins, sparse, absent from the central band; paraphyses branched, with elongate clavate terminal cells.
Distribution and occurrence: Epiphyte or lithophyte in subtropical to warm temperate rainforest.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Critically Endangered
'This fern is characterised by small coriaceous fronds, a narrowly winged stipe, short sori on the lateral veins and paraphyses with elongate linear-clavate terminal cells.' (D.L. Jones in Flora of Australia Volume 48).
Text by added by Matt A.M. Renner (5 May 2020)
Taxon concept: D.L. Jones in McCarthy (ed) Flora of Australia Volume 48.
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