Phlegmariurus phlegmarioides (Gaudich.) A.R.Field & Bostock has a distinct phylotaxis with lyophylls arranged in four planar ranks. It occurs in Oceania east of the Moluccas, including the lowland tropical rainforest of north eastern Queensland, Australia.
Your posts are amazing! The photos are wonderful and the texts are very informative.
I am fascinated to see the uniqueness of the forests in this part of the world. It seems that several species of Phlegmariurus are taking advantage of ferns, particularly Platycerium spp., to thrive as epiphytes. It is nice to see how the “shield leaves” of these polypods are providing a suitable environment for other species on the canopy, which would be too dry otherwise.