jeremy_rolfe's Identifications

Locally abundant in riparian and slope forest on rotting logs, fallen tree fern (ponga) and tree stumps in heavily shaded sites. Plants golden yellow with a distinct 'woolly' appearance and somewhat glossy when fresh. Leaves densely hispid. Seems to be this species or one allied to it - microscope work needed to resolve but this name is a good place holder for now.

Voucher: P.J. de Lange 13304 & F.J.T. de Lange

Abundant along stream bands and within stream bed (often growing immersed). Associated with Fissidens rigidulus var. rigidulus and Monoclea forsteri. Plant smostly dark green to almost black. Leaves flattened into one plane. Costa strong reaching leaf apex, leaf lamina near apex very minutely, irregularly serrated. Image of an especially lush and brighter green patch than those usually seen.

Voucher: P.J. de Lange 13290 & F.J.T. de Lange, AK

Starting to naturalise in bark gardens around planted specimens. Not sure of the species but this is the name that is being used for such plants in New Zealand (for now any way).

The keen and observant of you will notice that in one image there is a poroporo seedling - which I am not posting up as a separate record because its sterile and so I cannot furnish it with a name beyond genus level....

:-)

Images from Herbarium Voucher (PdL 13732 (AK 368355, WELT), collected from Kapiti Island, Trig Track 11 April 2017). The pinnule abaxial surfaces glabrous. Associated with Adiantum fulvum - http://naturewatch.org.nz/observations/5867816 and an intermediate race that has the frond morphology of A. viridescens but the abaxial pinnule surface is hairy (so matching A. fulvum) - see http://naturewatch.org.nz/observations/5867922. I wonder if Adiantum viridescens forms hybrids with A. fulvum, or whether it is merely a glabrescent state of A. fulvum - in much the same way as one gets hairy and glabrous races of Adiantum diaphanum and A. hispidulum in New Zealand?

Voucher: P.J. de Lange 13732, AK 368355

Plants occur in small patches on well-shaded, upper slopes in mixed species broadleaved forest.

Tiny hairs occur on the stipe, mostly on the lower third of the stipe (near the ground); the rachis is hairless.