English: Austral lady fern.
Synonym: Athyrium australe; Allantodia australis.
Region: eastern Australia, New Zealand, Norfolk Island.
Habitat: moist shaded areas, often in rainforest; 70% subtropical, 25% neotropical, 5% in Africa.
BotanyFern; small.
Reproduction: by spores, and it is precisely because of the long-distance transmission of spores Stem: underground stolonifer rhizomes, and aboveground stolonifer rhizomes, partly with adventitious roots, capable of growing new shoots
Leaves: new leaves usually expand gradually, forming a constricted spiral, known as crozier or fiddlehead; sporophyll produce mostly spores.
Sporangia: pouches or capsules that contain spores through which ferns reproduce; arranged in a pattern related to the veins of the leaf.