Blechnum chambersii
The lance water fern is a small to medium tufted fern with separate sterile and fertile fronds. It grows on damp, shaded banks in the forests of New Zealand and southeastern Australia. It needs cool, constantly humid, shaded conditions and never tolerates drying out.
Where it grows wild
Grows on wet, shaded stream banks, gully sides and seepages in lowland to montane rainforest, often on clay or among rocks near water. This is a cool-temperate rainforest fern.
Records run from sea level to about 1100 m, median about 350 m.
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