Dryopteridaceae
Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes - Online edition
Bolbitis quoyana
Bolbitis quoyana (Gaudich.) Ching
Link to Australian Plant Name Index for publication details and synonyms: https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/116297
Rhizome short-creeping; scales narrowly ovate with narrowly acute apices. Fronds erect, 30–120 cm long, dark green to dark bluish green. Stipe 15–50 cm long, scaly. Lamina 1-pinnate, with a pinnatifid apex. Pinnae of sterile fronds attached by stalks only except for 1 or 2 pairs immediately below the apex, 8–20 cm long, 2–4 cm wide; longest pinnae towards the base; margins shallowly to deeply lobed. Fertile laminae with smaller narrower paler pinnae and a longer stipe. Veins anastomosing, with several series of areoles on each side of a pinna midrib.
Occurs in NE QLD from Lockerbie Scrub Cape York Peninsula to Johnstone River in the Wet Tropics. Also in Malesia and Polynesia.
Terrestrial in low altitude rainforest, usually in wet areas such as creek banks.
Produces small plantlets adventitiously from the frond apex where it touches the ground.
Readily grown in a container of moisture retentive mix or in the ground in a tropical or subtropical fernery or shaded part of the garden. The proliferous frond tips enable a colony to spread in moist places.
Field AR, Quinn CJ, Zich FA (2022) Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes. apps.lucidcentral.org/fern/text/intro/index.htm (accessed online INSERT DATE).
Field AR, Quinn CJ, Zich FA (2022) ‘Platycerium superbum’, in Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes. apps.lucidcentral.org/fern/text/entities/platycerium_superbum.htm (accessed online INSERT DATE).