Asplenium oblongifolium, also known as shining spleenwort (huruhuruwhenua in Maori), is found in New Zealand, in the coastal, lowland, and mountainous areas of the Kermadec and Macquarie Islands, north of the Three Kings Islands, and throughout the North Island.
The plant has stocky, erect, or short creeping rhizomes, sometimes forming woody clumps on the ground, and has scales.
Asplenium oblongifolium is usually a terrestrial or reptilian species, but sometimes you can find the epiphyte growing on tree trunks.
It grows on the ground, river banks, among roots, rocks, cliffs, ledges, road cuts, scoriae and lava, sand dunes, rotten logs and stumps, and sometimes near the sea.
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