Asplenium contiguum
A native Hawaiian spleenwort that also occurs in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, described by Kaulfuss in 1824. In Hawaii it grows as an epiphyte on ʻōhiʻa trunks and fallen logs, and on the ground among bryophytes, in mesic and wet cloud forest, mostly above about 1,000 m. Grow it as a mild, humid, shaded epiphyte.
Where it grows wild
Hawaiian labels describe native mesic and wet cloud forest dominated by Metrosideros polymorpha, Cheirodendron, Melicope and Cibotium tree ferns. It grows epiphytically on ʻōhiʻa trunks and fallen logs, in riparian gulches, and on the ground in bryophyte mats on summit ridges.
Records with altitudes fall between about 30 and 1,830 m, median 1,350 m. Most Hawaiian collections come from montane forest around 900–1,800 m.
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