Flora of Victoria

Fronds distant along rhizome, erect to drooping, glossy, leathery, variable in size and shape, 25–100 cm long. Stipe long, deeply grooved, with papery, brown scales. Lamina 2–3-pinnate, narrowly to broadly triangular, dark green, glabrous; rachises grooved, with raised centre and prominent lateral ridges, scaly. Primary pinnae stalked and distant; pinnules decurrent, oblong-lanceolate, bluntly toothed or lobed. Sori numerous, slightly sunken, in 2 rows midway between margin and midrib; indusium round and membranous, centre dark, with central stalk; spores blackish.

CVU, EGL, EGU, GipP, GGr, HFE, HNF, HSF, OtP, OtR, Strz, VAlp, VVP, WaP, WPro. Also Qld, NSW, Tas. (including Bass Strait islands). New Zealand, South Africa, Central and South America. Occurs in wet shaded forest and in deep fern gullies as an epiphyte (often on Dicksonia antarctica), scrambling on logs and rocks, or occasionally, on forest floor.

Source: Entwisle, T.J. (1994). Ferns and allied plants (Psilophyta, Lycopodiophyta, Polypodiophyta). In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J. (eds), Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons. Inkata Press, Melbourne.

life Life

kingdom Plantae

phylum Tracheophyta

class Polypodiopsida

order Polypodiales

family Dryopteridaceae

genus Rumohra

Higher taxa

species Rumohra adiantiformis (G.Forst.) Ching

Victoria

**Source:** AVH (2014). *Australia's Virtual Herbarium*, Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, <http://avh.chah.org.au>. Find Rumohra adiantiformis in AVH ; *Victorian Biodiversity Atlas*, © The State of Victoria, Department of Environment and Primary Industries (published Dec. 2014) Find Rumohra adiantiformis in Victorian Biodiversity Atlas

Bioregion	Occurrence status	Establishment means
Victorian Volcanic Plain	present	native
Gippsland Plain	present	native
Otway Plain	present	native
Warrnambool Plain	present	native
Central Victorian Uplands	present	native
Greater Grampians	present	native
East Gippsland Lowlands	present	native
East Gippsland Uplands	present	native
Wilsons Promontory	present	native
Highlands-Southern Fall	present	native
Highlands-Northern Fall	present	native
Otway Ranges	present	native
Strzelecki Ranges	present	native
Highlands-Far East	present	native
Victorian Alps	present	native

Bioregions of Victoria

State distribution

State
Queensland
New South Wales
Victoria
Tasmania

Rumohra adiantiformis (G.Forst.) Ching

Leathery Shield-fern

Victoria

State distribution