- Pronunciation: ad-ee-AN-tum his-PID-ewe-lum
- Common Name: Rough Maiden Hair Fern, Five Fingered Jack
- Type: Fern
- Family: ADIANTACEAE
- Size: 30 cm
- Flowers: Ferns do not have flowers or Fruit but produce spores on the backs of their Leaves throughout the year.
- Vegetation Type: In rainforests, or eucalypt forests, on earth baniks or among rocks, wet clay banks.
- Species List: Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, BSDoonan, Old Tewantin, Cooroibah Conservation Park, Janet, Batianoff 87, NNP Tanglewood, NNP Palm Grove, Kin Kin Scrub
Identification Notes
Stipe: tufted, 10-30 cm long, stout, rough, very dark brown to almost black, shiny, bearing scales towards the base.
Leaves: New growth pink. Pinnules bear whitish hairs on lower surface.
Rhizome: erect or shortly creeping, scaly, bearing rootlets which lack small Tuber-like outgrowths.
Very variable Species
Landscaping Notes
Shade
Successfully propagated by Florabunda Bushcare nursery Woombye
