Common name: Rock Felt Fern
Pyrrosia rupestris (R.Br.) Ching APNI* 
Description: Rhizome long-creeping, much branched; scales spreading, papery, pale reddish brown, entire.
Fronds dimorphic; sterile fronds ± circular to obovate, usually 1.5–4 cm long; fertile fronds narrow-lanceolate, usually 4–10 cm long but occasionally longer, 3–7 mm wide.
Sori occurring over most of the lower surface of the lamina of the fertile frond, irregularly arranged in 1–4 rows on each side of the midrib, ± confluent with age. Creeping plant on trunks and branches of rainforest trees, also growing on rocks in ± exposed situations.
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread, north from Nadgee and west to the Warrumbungle Ra.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by Peter G. Wilson
Taxon concept: P.D. Bostock & T.M. Spokes (1998)
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