Flora of New Zealand Series

hart's tongue fern

Stipes densely scaly, 3-20 cm long. Laminae very narrowly elliptic, undivided, acute at apex, cordate at base, slightly undulate on margins, scaly, 20-30 × 3-4 cm. Sori to 2 cm long, linear, occupying > 1/2 width of laminae.

S.: Riccarton Bush (Christchurch), Dunedin.

Europe, Asia 1976

Shaded forest margins.

Fig. 1. A-B Polypodium vulgare, A frond, B sorus; C Phyllitis scolopendrium, frond. © All rights reserved. [Image: 4X3B]