Asplenium appendiculatum
A small, finely divided spleenwort of cool, damp forest in New Zealand, Tasmania and southern Victoria. The inland subspecies grows on the forest floor in deep, moist soil in partial shade, while a coastal subspecies grows on rocks near the sea. It suits a cool, shaded fernery or a cool terrarium, not a warm living room.
Where it grows wild
Forest floor in lowland to subalpine forest, and bluffs and rocky outcrops in grey scrub. The typical subspecies is terrestrial in deep, rich, moist soil in semi-shade. In Tasmania it also grows in wet sclerophyll forest and fern gullies, on fallen logs and tree-fern trunks (Dicksonia antarctica), and on rocky summits.
Lowland to subalpine. The few measured elevations run from 95 to 930 m, median 370 m (9 records).
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