Scientific Name: Lastreopsis acuminata
Common Name: shiny shieldfern
Family Classification (Clade): Pteridophytes
Family: Dryopteridaceae
Form Description: Fern with rhizome, tufted with brown scales; fronds, up to 90cm long, arching on stipes as long as frond dark green, shiny, usually bipinnatifid.
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Habitat Notes
Uncommon but locally abundant across northern Tasmania, scattered and coastal elsewhere. Grows typically in dark sheltered conditions beside running water; terrestrial or lithophytic; from sea level to 200m (rarely 400m).
Site Tolerance
Moist, Rocky, Shady
Soil Tolerance
Fertile, Well-drained
General Notes
Suits hanging baskets if watered regularly. Appears to have the greatest low-light tolerance for spore germination of all Tasmanian pteridophytes.
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Seed Collection
Sori halfway between midvein and margin, indusium dark brown, kidney-shaped. Spores are blackish and shed fairly quickly. Brown sporangia remain on the fronds, giving false appearance of fertile material.