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Bristly shield fern
Lastreopsis hispida
About
Lastreopsis hispida, known as the bristly shield fern, is a common plant found in New Zealand. Less often seen in Australia, in cool rainforest areas with humus rich soils, or more rarely as an epiphyte on tree ferns or mossy logs. Listed as endangered in the state of New South Wales where it grows in a few remote sites in the Blue Mountains, such as at Mount Wilson. The specific epithet hispida is from Latin, meaning "bristly".
- Family
- Dryopteridaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Lastreopsis hispida
- Slug
- lastreopsis-hispida
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Dryopteridaceae
- Genus
- Lastreopsis
- Species
- hispida
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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