Grammitis diminuta (Baker) Copel. APNI* Description: Rhizome stoutish, erect; scales lanceolate, long-pointed, somewhat flexuous, light brown.
Fronds simple; stipe merging shortly and imperceptably into attenuate base of lamina, glabrous; lamina very narrowly elliptic, 3–15(-25) cm long, 0.4–0.9 cm broad, entire, ±recurved when desiccated, long-attenuate at apex with tip blunt, ±coriaceous, glabrous; veins obscure.
Sori elongate, 1 row on each side of prominent midrib in upper part of frond, with a tendency to coalesce.
Distribution and occurrence: Lord Howe Is. Endemic. Confined to the upper slopes and tops of Mts Gower and Lidgbird. Epiphyte in cloud forest.
NSW subdivisions: LHI
Text by E.A. Brown
Taxon concept: Flora of Australia 49
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