Scientific Name: Notogrammitis gunnii

Common Name: creeping fingerfern

Family Classification (Clade): Pteridophytes

Family: Grammitidaceae

Form Description: Small fern with long creeping rhizome. Also has black stipes and hairs on sori.

Municipality
Central HighlandsDerwent ValleyHuon ValleyMeander Valley
Plant Communities
Alpine and Sub-alpine Vegetation
Habitat Notes

On rock outcrops in alpine areas. Most closely resembles Notogrammitis crassior but differs because of its black stipes and the presence of soral hairs.

Site Tolerance

Exposed, Moist, Rocky, Windy

Soil Tolerance

Nutrient-poor, Well-drained

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