Adiantum chilense
A maidenhair fern of central and southern Chile and adjacent Argentina, growing in shaded rock crevices, ravines and stream banks in a Mediterranean climate. It gets cool, wet winters and hot, rainless summers, often dying back to its rhizome in the summer drought.
Where it grows wild
Terrestrial or on rocks, in shaded, moister spots within scrub and woodland: ravines, rock crevices, seepages and the shade of boulders and shrubs. This is based on general knowledge of the species and genus, not a detailed source we could open.
Recorded from sea level to about 1700 m, median about 740 m.
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