Notogrammitis billardierei

Notogrammitis billardierei is a small fern that typically grows on trunks, dead logs, and rocks [2].

The fronds are 7–15 cm long, and 4–7 mm wide, with entire margins and obvious midveins.

Notogrammitis billardierei is of the division polypodiophyta, and thus does not produce flowers, cones, or seeds, instead reproducing sexually through spores.

The species, billardierei, was named in honour of Jacques Houttou de Labillardiere, a 19th-century French botanist.

Notogrammitis billardierei is widespread in rainforest and moist open forest in Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Eastern coast of Australia in Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland [4].

The most common way to cultivate Notogrammitis billardierei is by mounting it epiphytically on a tree fern, such as Dicksonia antarctica.

Flora of Australia volume 48, Ferns, Gymnosperms, and Allied Groups.

Radial distributions of air plants: a comparison between epiphytes and mistletoes.

Notogrammitis billardierei growing epiphytically on Nothofagus cunninghamii in the Styx Valley, Tasmania