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Tricholepidium

Tricholepidium is a small genus of ferns in the polypody family (Polypodiaceae, subfamily Microsoroideae), mostly tropical and rarely grown as a houseplant. Care advice here applies to fern-like epiphytes of this type, which need humid, shaded conditions and a loose, airy medium.

Family
Polypodiaceae (Polypody fern family)
Grows as
Fern
Light
Bright indirect, Shade
Water
Keep the medium evenly moist but never soggy, and water when the top layer begins to dry.
Soil
Loose, airy epiphyte mix of bark, perlite and peat or coir.
Temperature
18–29 °C; protect below 13 °C
How easy
Moderate

About

Tricholepidium is a genus of ferns in the family Polypodiaceae, subfamily Microsoroideae, according to the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).

Other Lepisorus plants

Lemmaphyllum · Lepisorus · Neocheiropteris · Neolepisorus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tricholepidium 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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