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NZ Plants
Bazzania tayloriana
Family: Lepidoziaceae
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Plants on a tree fern trunk
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Plants
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Dorsal surface of shoot with 3-toothed leaves
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Dorsal surface of leaves
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Ventral surface of stem with 4-toothed underleaves
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Bazzania tayloriana plants are small and fragile with overlapping leaves with strongly curved margins and truncate, 3-toothed tips. The presence of a waxy coating on the leaf surface gives the plants a milky blue-green appearance. Underleaves are tiny and membranous, usually with three bluntly-rounded lobes.
Found in damp forest throughout New Zealand on logs, base of trees and soil and especially common on tree ferns.
