The native range of this species is Tropical & S. Africa, W. Indian Ocean. It is an epiphyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Habitat. A low- to mid-level epiphyte in forest or on sheltered mossy boulders, from 1500-1800 m in Transvaal and 2500 m. Epiphyte in forest or on sheltered ...

Rhizome widely creeping, up to 5 mm in diameter, with a whitish, waxy covering; rhizome scales shiny, brown, lanceolate, up to 4 mm long, margins paler, ...

Lepisorus excavatus (Bory ex Willd.) Ching. Common name(s). Synonym(s). 31. Genus. Lepisorus. Family. Polypodiaceae. Flora. World flora. 28observations.

Dry forest, mist-forest, moist evergreen forest or in high-altitude rocky outcrops, Brachystegia woodland, tree-heath montane zone, partially or deeply shaded.

As circumscribed here, L. excavatus is a very variable fern. Specimens with completely rounded frond apices (eg. V.D. van Someren 1926, Marsabit, forest, July ...

Lepisorus (J.Sm.) Ching. Species. Lepisorus excavatus (Bory ex Willd.) Ching. = ? vesiculari-paleaceum Hieron. = Drynaria excavata (Bory ex Willd.) Fée.

Group. Fern + allies. Family. Polypodiaceae. Genus. Lepisorus. Species. Lepisorus excavatus (Bory ex Willd.) Ching. Google Earth · Google Maps.

Lepisorus excavatus (Bory ex Willd.) Ching (redirected from: Polypodium ... Lepisorus excavatus. Open Interactive Map.

POWO follows these authorities in synonymising this name: Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World.