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At least I think that it is Tmesipteris lanceolata! The Tmesipteris bit I am fairly certain of, T.lanceolata is a best guess. An interesting array of
plants can turn up growing on tree fern trunks, and this turned up in mine. I am hoping that it will produce a dense enough colony for me to be able to remove a piece
and try it in a more conventional container, presumably in a very well drained mix! I had the sense to leave the plant alone. I still have the tree fern but I haven't seen the Tmesipteris since 2007. There is a small colony growing at Ventnor Botanic garden, also as a result of imported tree fern trunks. The University of Auckland say: "Tmesipteris lanceolata is occasionally terrestrial but usually an epiphyte on tree fern trunks. It has a creeping stem (rhizome) that lacks roots, absorbing water instead with filamentous rhizoids. A pendulous and undivided aerial stem is formed that lacks true leaves, functioning instead with scale leaves. Scale leaves are flattened in one plane, are glossy green, broad, and stiff. Round-ended sporangia are fused in pairs and lie on the upper surface at the base of forked fertile leaves. Found on the North Island south to the Bay of Plenty" |
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