Polypodiaceae
Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes - Online edition
Tomophyllum walleri
Tomophyllum walleri (Maiden & Betche) Parris
Link to Australian Plant Name Index for publication details and synonyms: https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/215193
Rhizome radial, producing whorls of fronds. Frond lamina 2.9–9.3 cm long, 0.9–3 cm wide; pinnae 10–23 pairs; longest pinnae 5–19 mm long, 1–4 mm wide, apically obtuse to acute, thinly coriaceous; margins entire or lobed; hairs 0.1–0.4 mm long, whitish to medium red-brown, catenate, simple, glandular, abaxially on rachis and lamina, with whitish to pale red-brown forked hairs abaxially on rachis. Sori on 2–15 pairs of pinnae.
Endemic to NE QLD from a few locations between Mt Finnegan and Herberton Range.
Epiphytic or lithophytic in high rainfall upper montane rainforest.
Tomophyllum walleri can be distinguished from Ctenopterella by the irregularly lobulate margins in fertile fronds.
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