Polypodiaceae (Grammitidaceae in Fl. Australia 48)
Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes - Online edition
Calymmodon luerssenianus
Calymmodon luerssenianus (Domin) Copel.
Link to Australian Plant Name Index for publication details and synonyms: https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/102595
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.
Endemic to NE QLD from Mt Finnegan to Ravenshoe.
Epiphytic or lithophytic in upper montane rainforest, usually on mountain peaks on granite.
Field AR, Quinn CJ, Zich FA (2022) Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes. apps.lucidcentral.org/fern/text/intro/index.htm (accessed online INSERT DATE).
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