Schizeaceae
Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes - Online edition
Lygodium reticulatum
Lygodium reticulatum Schkuhr
Link to Australian Plant Name Index for publication details and synonyms: https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/100441
Rhizome long-creeping. Juvenile fronds once-forked; pinnae 4-lobed; margins serrulate. Rachis glabrous to densely pubescent, subterete, flattened on 1 side with ridged edges; primary rachis branches 1–2 mm long; secondary pinnae ovate to oblong, 8–20 cm long, 6–16 cm wide, 1-pinnate, rarely 2-pinnate at base; pinnule stalks usually reducing towards pinna apex; ultimate pinnules oblong to lanceolate or ovate, cordate to truncate at base, 3–8 (–14) cm long, 8–30 mm wide, coriaceous, persistent; margins finely crenulate; veins reticulate; sterile pinnules usually narrower and longer than sporogenous ones. Sporogenous lobes 2–7 mm long.
NE QLD from Maloneys Springs to Shoalwater Bay. Also in Asia and Malesia.
Terrestrial climber in lowland to upper montane vine forest, particularly on forest margins and in riparian areas with a broken canopy.
This species can form large climber towers in disturbed rainforest.
Lygodium flexuosum and Lygodium microphyllum.
1a. Lateral veins in pinnules forming a network = Lygodium reticulatum
1b. Lateral veins in pinnules not forming a network = 2
2a. Pinnules articulated at base, deciduous = Lygodium microphyllum
2b. Pinnules not articulated at base, persistent (look for dead pinnules hanging on frond) = Lygodium flexuosum
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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).