A species of southern South America. Planted elsewhere as the Antarctic Hard Fern, locally called Pinque. Photo from Rio Exploradores area, Chilean Patagonia.
fern terrestrial, arborescent, 1.5-2.0 m, trunk straight, scales rusty brown, fronds with ca 40 pairs of pinnae on both sterile and fertile fronds Project web address: www.inbio.ac.cr/pila-darwin/
fern arborescent, 1.5-2 m, scales rusty brown, shiny; very common and growing in large patches with sphagnum covering their bases Project web address: www.inbio.ac.cr/pila-darwin/