FIG. 1 in Lygodium hians E.Fournier (Pteridophyta, Schizaeales) - an endemic unusual groundclothing member of a modern climbing fern genus in New Caledonia

FIG. 1. — Forest habitat (A) and forest floor (B) of the Lygodium hians E.Fournier colony on Plateau de Dogny, c. 710 m, New Caledonia.; A, natural vegetation showing temperate character of relatively open, mature forest community (lacking, for example, in such tropical fern families as Cyatheaceae and Gleicheniaceae, which are abundant at lower, more tropical altitudes). The surrounding nearby forest-floor vegetation also contains abundant Blechnum L. ferns; B, fronds of part of the colony, showing predominance of typically dichotomous-bladed vegetative frond growth, with some variation in blade form. The conifer seedling is Austrotaxus spicata Compton.