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Cephalomanes atrovirens

Cephalomanes atrovirens
Photo: Kunze, Gustav, 1793-1851, No restrictions

Cephalomanes atrovirens is a filmy fern of wet, shaded tropical forests in Asia, the Pacific and eastern Australia. It needs constant humidity and shade to grow well, and it is rarely grown as a houseplant.

Family
Hymenophyllaceae (Hymenophyll family)
Grows as
Fern
Light
Shade
Water
Keep the growing medium and surrounding air consistently moist, never dry.
Soil
Fine, moisture-retentive mix, often on wet rock or bark in nature.
Temperature
18–28 °C; protect below 15 °C.
How easy
Hard

About

Cephalomanes atrovirens is a species of fern in the family Hymenophyllaceae. The genus Cephalomanes is accepted in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), but not by some other sources. As of October 2019, Plants of the World Online sank the genus into a broadly defined Trichomanes, while treating the subtaxa of this species as the separate species Trichomanes acrosorum, Trichomanes atrovirens, Trichomanes boryanum and Trichomanes kingii.

Where it grows

The species as a whole is native to the Ryukyu Islands, Malesia (the Philippines and Sulawesi), Papuasia (New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and the Solomon Islands), the northwestern Pacific (the Mariana Islands, Palau, the Caroline Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia), the southwestern Pacific (Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, the Santa Cruz Islands, and Vanuatu) and eastern Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Norfolk Island, and Lord Howe Island).

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cephalomanes atrovirens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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