Common name: Weeping Spleenwort
Asplenium flaccidum G.Forst. APNI* 
Description: Rhizome short-creeping, thick, covered with dark brown to black scales.
Fronds pendent, to 90 cm long, 1–2-pinnate with pinnae often deeply pinnatisect or 2-pinnatisect, veins free; lamina bright green, thick and leathery, never giving rise to proliferous buds.
Sori appearing marginal, solitary on each secondary pinna, 2–7 mm long.
Distribution and occurrence: Often forming large pendent clumps in rainforest, growing on trees or rocks.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. Tas.
Text by Peter G. Wilson
Taxon concept:
| N.S.W. occurrences are: subsp. flaccidum |
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