Asplenium flabellifolium
A small trailing spleenwort from Australia and New Zealand with flaccid, drooping fronds of fan-shaped pinnae. Its rachis runs on past the last pinna and roots at the tip, so a plant walks across rock and makes new plantlets, which gives it the names necklace fern and walking fern. It lives in rock crevices, caves and on logs in shady, damp spots and is a good candidate for a cool terrarium or a mossy rock.
Where it grows wild
Grows mainly in rock crevices, and also on the ground, in caves, on fallen logs and tree trunks, beside streams, on cliffs and at waterfalls. It is found in rainforest, open forest, scrub and grassland, usually tucked into sheltered, damp microsites. It is sometimes epiphytic.
From sea level to about 1100 m.
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