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A pretty Chinese species, I bought it from Edulis. Their label says: "A rare creeping fern from China with reddish brown scales. Shade or part shade. Not too dry." Asked to confirm the identity of the plant they were growing, the Biology Department at Duke University, North Carolina say: " It doesn't seem very close to most Pseudophegopteris I know, and it threw me; stipes are stramineous, not reddish brown as most members of Pseudophegoteris, and has very delicate, herbaceous, relatively small fronds. Veins end before segment margin, no costa grooves adaxially, simple to forked veins, exindusiate, no hamate hairs (so can't be a Cyclogramma), long-creeping rhizomes, ovate, tan, glabrous stipe base scales. It has ± stellate/branched hairs on the stipes!! (but not like those of Goniopteris)." |
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| 11th July 2019 | ||