Diplazium squamuligerum

Athyriaceae

Diplazium squamuligerum (Rosenst.) Parris

Link to Australian Plant Name Index for publication details and synonyms: https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/204114

Rhizome erect, to 1.5 cm tall, scaly; scales to 1 mm long, dark brown with toothed margins. Fronds arcuate, 5–15 cm long, 1.5–4 cm wide. Stipe 0.5–5cm long, dark green, enveloped by green tissue which elongates to produce wings and protuberances; protuberances eventually bearing light brown scales to 1 mm long, with dark brown veins and bifid marginal teeth. Lamina bipinnate-tripinnatifid, 3–10 cm long, 1.5–4 cm wide, dark green above, paler below, occasionally proliferous from the rachis. Primary pinnae 5–25 mm long, 2–10 mm wide, most with an acroscopic secondary pinna to 5 mm long and an elliptic apical segment 5–10 mm long; margins serrate; veins free. Sori to 4 mm, elongate along most veins; indusium entire, narrow, light brown.

In Australia known from two areas on the Atherton Tablelands NE QLD. Also occurs in Papua New Guinea.

Terrestrial in montane rainforest, often near streams.