Scientific Name: Notogrammitis billardierei

Common Name: common fingerfern

Family Classification (Clade): Pteridophytes

Family: Grammitidaceae

Form Description: Small fern fronds, 6-15cm long, growing on tree trunks, tree-ferns, and mossy boulders. Rootstock erect to short-creeping.

Height (m): 0.06 – 0.15

Municipality
Break O’DayBurnieCentral CoastCentral HighlandsCircular HeadDerwent ValleyDorsetFlindersGlamorgan-Spring BayHobartHuon ValleyKentishKing IslandKingboroughLatrobeLauncestonMeander ValleyNorthern MidlandsSorellSouthern MidlandsTasmanWaratah-WynyardWest CoastWest Tamar
Plant Communities
RainforestRiparianWet Eucalypt Forest
Habitat Notes

Widespread and common, extending to high altitudes. Grows on mossy logs and rocks or is epiphytic on Dicksonia trunks and the lower branches and trunks of trees. One of the first non-terrestrial ferns to re-establish after fire or logging.

Site Tolerance

Moist, Rocky, Shady

General Notes

Grows on vertical branches or tree trunks.

Propagation Calendar

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Propagation Method
Specialist Method

Seed Information

Seed Collection

Spores: on the back of the fronds are tiny elliptical patches, obliquely angled with respect to the midvein, which produce spores.

Seed Treatment Notes

There is no record of the species being raised successfully from spores under the usual propagating procedures.