Hymenophyllum australe Willd. APNI* Synonyms: Mecodium australe (Willd.) Copel. APNI*
Description: Rhizome long-creeping, branched, brown and wiry, covered with a few pale, red-brown hairs.
Fronds mostly 4–20 cm long; stipe to 10 cm long, wing flat or slightly crisped; rachis with a flat or slightly crisped wing 1–3 mm wide; lamina 1–3-pinnatifid, to 4 cm long and 1–5 cm wide, margins not toothed.
Sori marginal, numerous; involucre ± circular, apex rounded or notched; receptacle club-shaped, included.
Distribution and occurrence: Epiphytic or found growing on rocks in rainforest or tall open forest, often along creeks; especially common in and to the south of the Blue Mtns.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, CT
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. Tas.
Text by Peter G. Wilson
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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