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Pyrrosia lanceolata

A small, tough felt fern with narrow leathery fronds covered in star-shaped hairs, creeping on tree bark and rocks from India through Southeast Asia to northern Australia and the western Pacific. It takes brighter light and more drying between waterings than most ferns, which makes it a good mount plant for a bright terrarium or a humid windowsill.

Pyrrosia lanceolata
Photo: Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry
Light Bright, filtered lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

Epiphyte on trunks and branches, and sometimes on rocks, in lowland forest edges, secondary growth, plantations, mangrove margins and coastal trees; it tolerates fairly exposed perches where it dries out between rains.

Recorded from sea level to about 1,500 m, mostly in the lowlands (median about 300 m).

Indian subcontinentIndo-ChinaSouthern China and TaiwanMalesiaNew GuineaNorthern QueenslandWestern Pacific islands

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC0 licence, unmodified.