English: Scrambling ground.
Synonym: Hypolepis distans.
Name: distans is derived from Latin, meaning widely spaced.
Region: New Zealand, Australia.
Habitat: soils with a high humus layer, swampy areas.
BotanyFern; small; scrambling.
Leaves: 20 to 40 pairs of primary pinnae, opposite or subopposite on the stem, at an angle of 90 degrees; indeterminate; intermittent growth; stipule-like pinnules at the base of pinnae; rachis-costa architecture, the adaxial sulcus of the rachis is continuous with that of the costae and costules.