Scientific Name: Notogrammitis crassior

Common Name: alpine fingerfern

Family Classification (Clade): Pteridophytes

Family: Grammitidaceae

Form Description: Small fern, fronds 1-3.5cm long, with rootstock creeping, much-branched.

Height (m): 0.01 – 0.035

Municipality
Break O’DayCentral HighlandsDerwent ValleyDorsetGlamorgan-Spring BayGlenorchyHobartHuon ValleyLauncestonMeander ValleyNorthern MidlandsSouthern MidlandsWest Coast
Plant Communities
Alpine and Sub-alpine Vegetation
Habitat Notes

Grows on mossy rocks, protected beneath large boulders or on semi-exposed rock ledges and crevices. Occurs on exposed, doleritic high mountain summits in Tasmania.

Site Tolerance

Moist, Rocky

Soil Tolerance

Well-drained

Frost Tolerance

Hardy

General Notes

Grows on mossy rocks.

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.