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Creeping Shield Fern

Parapolystichum microsorum

Creeping Shield Fern
Photo: Poyt448 Peter Woodard, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Dryopteridaceae (Wood fern family)
Grows as
Fern
Native range
E. & SE. Australia, Norfolk I.
Climate
subtropical

About

Parapolystichum microsorum, synonym (in part) Lastreopsis microsora, known as the creeping shield fern is a common small plant found in eastern Australia and New Zealand. The habitat is rainforest or moist sheltered eucalyptus forests. It may form large colonies. The specific epithet microsora translates to "small sori".

Other Parapolystichum plants

Shiny Shield Fern · Parapolystichum munitum · Parapolystichum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Parapolystichum microsorum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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