The plant is an epiphytic fern. It has an erect or shortly creeping rhizome with dense, chestnut brown, narrow pointed scales. Its simple fronds combine a 0.5–5 cm long stipe with a narrowly elliptic-linear lamina 5–20 cm long and 0.4–1.2 cm wide.[1]
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grammitis, wattsii, fern, family, polypodiaceae, specific, epithet, honours, reverend, watts, 1856, 1920, prominent, australian, cryptogamist, active, late, 19th, early, 20th, centuries, scientific, classificationkingdom, plantaeclade, tracheophytesdivision, p. Grammitis wattsii is a fern in the family Polypodiaceae The specific epithet honours the Reverend W W Watts 1856 1920 a prominent Australian cryptogamist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries 1 Grammitis wattsiiScientific classificationKingdom PlantaeClade TracheophytesDivision PolypodiophytaClass PolypodiopsidaOrder PolypodialesSuborder PolypodiineaeFamily PolypodiaceaeGenus GrammitisSpecies G wattsiiBinomial nameGrammitis wattsiiCopel 1 Description editThe plant is an epiphytic fern It has an erect or shortly creeping rhizome with dense chestnut brown narrow pointed scales Its simple fronds combine a 0 5 5 cm long stipe with a narrowly elliptic linear lamina 5 20 cm long and 0 4 1 2 cm wide 1 Distribution and habitat editThe fern is endemic to Australia s subtropical Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea it is confined to the cloud forest on the upper slopes and summits of Mounts Lidgbird and Gower 1 References edit a b c d Grammitis wattsii Flora of Australia Online Data derived from Flora of Australia Volume 49 1994 Australian Biological Resources Study ABRS Retrieved 2014 02 01 nbsp This Polypodiaceae related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Grammitis wattsii amp oldid 1115459124, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
