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Histiopteris incisa

Botanic Family

Dennstaedtiaceae

Author

(Thunberg) J.Smith

Common Names

• Bat's Wing Fern
• Water Fern

Geographical Habitats

• Pantropical

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• cloud forest
• forest edges
• riversides
• wasteland
• pasture
• disturbed forest
• streamside. coastal to subalpine

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Aug
• Nov
• Dec

Climbing or scrambling fern, glaucous, long creeping rhizomes, pale bluish-green to yellow-green tri-pinnate leaves to 2.3m x 1.2m sometimes to 4x pinnate , brown sori continuous around margins bourn on connecting veins, hemi-epiphytic

Further References

• FM
• Neotrop
• Mobot
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Elmer
• NYBG
• GBS
• NZPCN
• SAFIO