Rosy Maidenhair (Adiantum
hispidulum) - It’s fronds rise in clumps
from rhizomes among rocks or in the soil in sheltered areas and Its habitat is
sunny dry banks, rocky places and in open bush and coastal forests. Grows in
tufts or clumps among rocks or from the ground, its fronds arising from the
short dark clumped rhizomes. The dark stipe is up to 45 cm in length. The
fronds are divided into long and short narrow triangular or elliptic pinnae,
each of which is divided again into smaller roughly rectangular diamond, or
fan-shaped pinnules. Each pinnule may have 1 to 20 sori along its margins
underneath. New
growth may be pinkish before it matures into the dark
green foliage.