Diplazium cordifolium

Athyriaceae

Diplazium cordifolium Blume

Link to Australian Plant Name Index for publication details and synonyms: https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/77418

Rhizome short, erect, scaly at the apex; scales c. 1 cm long, c. 1.5 mm wide, brown with black margins. Fronds erect, crowded. Stipe 20–50 cm long. Lamina simple or rarely 1-pinnate near the base, narrowly elliptic, 20–31 cm long, 6.5–10 cm wide, coriaceous, pale green, often proliferous from near point of attachment of rachis and stipe; base cordate; margins entire or undulate; apex attenuate; veins anastomosing towards the frond margins. Sori elongate, often anastomosing; indusium entire, narrow, brown. 

Restricted to a small area in the Wet Tropics of QLD. Also in Malesia and Melanesia.

Terrestrial in high rainfall complex mesophyll vine forest at low altitude.

This plant grows in small localised colonies.

This is the only simple-leafed Diplazium in Australia.