Scientific Name: Tmesipteris parva

Common Name: small forkfern

Family Classification (Clade): Pteridophytes

Family: Psilotaceae

Threatened Species Status: Vulnerable

Permit: It is an offence to collect, disturb, damage or destroy this species unless under permit.

Form Description: Fern ally with rhizome thick fleshy usually buried in host. Stems, up to 10cm, very small crowded with curved, narrow leaf-like appendages.

Municipality
FlindersKing Island
Plant Communities
Riparian
Habitat Notes

Very rare in Tasmania, known only from King and Flinders Islands. Small pendulous epiphyte on Dicksonia and Cyathea. Most common in higher, drier side gullies or drainage channels.

Site Tolerance

Moist, Shady

General Notes

They have been successfully grown in inflated plastic bags with rhizomes covered by moist sphagnum moss. Rhizomes are very brittle and resent disturbance. Do best when grown on sections of tree-fern and require plenty of water, shade and humidity.

Propagation Calendar

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Propagation Method
Specialist Method

Seed Information

Seed Collection

Sporangia in joined pairs borne on specialised forked bracts.