Polypodiaceae (Grammitidaceae in Fl. Australia 48)
Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes - Online edition
Calymmodon luerssenianus
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Complete frond; habit. © Australian Tropical Herbarium
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Family
Botanical name
Calymmodon luerssenianus (Domin) Copel.
Link to Australian Plant Name Index for publication details and synonyms: https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/102595
Description
Rhizome scales pale to medium red-brown, sometimes with hairs at apex only. Frond lamina deeply pinnately lobed, (11–) 20–45 (–58) mm long, 3–7 mm wide, with simple eglandular hairs on abaxial surface of rachis and sometimes on margin and both surfaces of lamina, sometimes also with forked hairs on adaxial surface of rachis; fertile lobes not narrowed towards rachis; longest sterile lobes at least 1.5 times longer than wide, broadly triangular, oblong or obovate.
Distribution
Endemic to NE QLD from Mt Finnegan to Ravenshoe.
Habit and habitat
Epiphytic or lithophytic in upper montane rainforest, usually on mountain peaks on granite.
Citation of Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes
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).
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