Colysis hemionitidea
Colysis hemionitidea
Copyright © Phil Markey

Family: Polypodiaceae    Species

Common Name: None known

Cold Hardiness Zone: 9b     View the UK and US zone maps

Colysis hemionitidea Information

General Information

This is a very unusual looking fern, at first glance it doesn't resemble a fern at all until you look under the fronds and see the sori beneath. I know very little about this species, only that I found it growing on the forest floor at close to 2000 m elevation in wet coniferous forest in central Taiwan. It seem to require a very cool environment. The fern is much larger than it looks in the above picture - fronds are around 1 m long and 15 cm wide.

Distribution

Distribution information currently being revised.