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Anogramma leptophylla

Port Hills, Christchurch.<br>Photographer: Melissa Hutchison, Date taken: 28/12/2022, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>
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Under rock ledge, Port Hills Canterbury.<br>Photographer: Marley Ford, Date taken: 05/11/2022, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>
Sori on frond underside, Mt Wellington Auckland.<br>Photographer: Marley Ford, Date taken: 11/10/2021, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>
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A close up of abaxial frond surface, Mount Wellington.<br>Photographer: John E. Braggins, Licence: All rights reserved.
A healthy specimen, Mt Wellington Auckland.<br>Photographer: Marley Ford, Date taken: 11/10/2021, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>
Mangatoetoe Stream, Palliser Bay.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 02/10/2010, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>
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Mt Wellington (1997).<br>Photographer: Bec Stanley, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0'>CC BY-SA</a>.
Mt Wellington (note liverwort Targionia) (1997).<br>Photographer: Bec Stanley, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0'>CC BY-SA</a>.
Pahaoa Gorge, Wairarapa.<br>Photographer: A. J. Townsend, Date taken: 01/01/1996, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.
Stevensons Island.<br>Photographer: John Barkla, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>
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Common name

Jersey fern, annual fern

Synonyms

Polypodium leptophyllum L., Grammitis leptophylla Swartz, Gymnogramme leptophylla Desv., Gymnogramme novae-zelandiae Colenso; Osmunda leptophylla (L.) Savigny in Lam.; Hemionitis leptophylla (L.) Lag.; Acrostichum leptophyllum (L.) Lam. et DC.; Asplenium leptophyllum (L.) Sw.; Grammitis leptophylla (L.) Sw.

Family

Pteridaceae

Authority

Anogramma leptophylla (L.) Link

Flora category

Vascular – Native

Endemic taxon

No

Endemic genus

No

Endemic family

No

Structural class

Ferns

NVS code

The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.

ANOLEP

Chromosome number

2n = 52, 58

Current conservation status

  • Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017

The threat classification status of all known New Zealand vascular plant taxa at the rank of species and below were reassessed in 2017 using the New Zealand Threat Classification System (NZTCS) – more information about this can be found on the NZTCS website This report includes a statistical summary and brief notes on changes since 2012 and replaces all previous NZTCS lists for vascular plants. Authors: By Peter J. de Lange, Jeremy R. Rolfe, John W. Barkla, Shannel P. Courtney, Paul D. Champion, Leon R. Perrie, Sarah M. Beadel, Kerry A. Ford, Ilse Breitwieser, Ines Schönberger, Rowan Hindmarsh-Walls, Peter B. Heenan and Kate Ladley. Please note, threat classifications are often suggested by authors when publications fall between NZTCS assessment periods – a suggested threat classification status has not been assessed by the NZTCS panel.

Source: NZTCS and licensed by DOC for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

2017 | Threatened – Nationally Vulnerable | Qualifiers: DP, RR, SO, Sp

Previous conservation statuses

2012 | Threatened – Nationally Vulnerable | Qualifiers: EF, RR, SO, Sp

2009 | Threatened – Nationally Vulnerable | Qualifiers: SO, EF, RR, Sp

2004 | Gradual Decline

Distribution

Indigenous. In New Zealand known from Northland to Southland - easterly in its distribution.

Also known from Australia, South America, Africa, India and Europe.

Habitat

Clay banks, alluvial banks, rock faces and overhangs. Often associated with liverworts.

Features

Dimunitive, tufted, winter dormant, early spring to mid summer-green fern, which dries off by mid to late summer, appearing dead. Rhizomes small, hairy. Stipes red-brown, glabrous. Fronds 10-60 mm long, ovate or narrowly ovate, 2-3-pinnate, 8-50 x 7-30 mm, pale green or yellow-green, somewhat membraneous and delicate, glabrous. Sterile fronds smaller than fertile, appearing first. Ultimate frond divisions fan-shaped and deeply notched. Sori near tips of pinnae, one per segment.

Similar taxa

None

Flowering

Not applicable - spore producing

Flower colours

No flowers

Fruiting

Not applicable - spore producing

Propagation technique

Difficult and should not be removed from the wild.

Threats

This species is mainly threatened through habitat loss by competition with weeds, and by the removal of surrounding vegetation.

Etymology

anogramma: From the Greek ano ‘upward’ or ‘above’ and gramma ‘lined’ or ‘written’, referring to the sori maturing first near the tips

leptophylla: Slender leaf

Where To Buy

Not commercially available.

Attribution

Fact Sheet Prepared for NZPCN by: P.J. de Lange (17 April 2011). Description adapted from Brownsey & Smith-Dodsworth.

References and further reading

Moss, T. 1988. The Anogramma-Targionia association. Wellington Botanical Society Bulletin, 44: 16-18

Brownsey, P.J.; Smith-Dodsworth, J.C. 2000: New Zealand Ferns and Allied Plants. Auckland, David Bateman.

NZPCN Fact Sheet citation

Please cite as: de Lange, P.J. (Year at time of access): Anogramma leptophylla Fact Sheet (content continuously updated). New Zealand Plant Conservation Network. https://www.nzpcn.org.nz/flora/species/anogramma-leptophylla/ (Date website was queried)

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