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NZ Plants
Symphyogyna subsimplex
Family Pallaviciniaceae
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Plants on tree fern trunk
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Plants consist of a short stalk and an expanded lamina or blade.
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Male plants with antheridia along the lamina midrib
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Antherid are partially covered by small scales
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Scales removed to expose antheridia borne on short stalks.
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Female plant with toothed scales along the midrib, each covering an archegonium
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Toothed scale subtending a cylindrical calyptra (expanded archegonial wall)
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Tip of shoot calyptra with remnants of unfertilised archegonia
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Calyptras with emergent sporophytes, each with unopened capsules
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Symphyogyna subsimplex consists of a prostrate to pendulous slender stalk up to 5 cm long bearing an undivided thallus 2-3 cm long and 6 mm wide with smooth (entire) margins.
Widespread throughout New Zealand in damp forest, usually on tree fern trunks.