Asplenium paleaceum
A small spleenwort from eastern Queensland and New Guinea. Its stipes and rachis are densely covered in brown scales, which give it the name 'chaffy'. It grows on rocks and earth banks along rainforest and vine-thicket creeks, often deep in shaded crevices among boulders. It is a warm, humid, shade-loving lithophyte that is used to a drier winter.
Where it grows wild
It is a lithophyte on moist rocks, boulders and creek banks in rainforest, vine forest and semi-deciduous vine thicket. Specimen labels describe it on granite boulders, in rock walls beside creeks, in shaded gullies and in sheltered crevices, and sometimes on earth banks.
Recorded from near sea level (about 85 m) to about 1070 m on Mount Windsor, mostly at 100–850 m.
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