| Scientific Name: | Rumohra adiantiformis |
| Common Name: | leatherleaf fern |
| Family Name: | Dryopteridaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - southern, Australia / New Zealand, Central America, South America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Fern, Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Weeping |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Floristry |
| Exposure: | Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Humus rich |
| Leaves: | Compound, Fern-like, Basal, Leathery, Lustrous, Bipinnate, Tripinnate, Deltoid, Lanceolate, Oblong, Ovate, Dentate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | |
| Fruit: | Sporangium (spores), Black |
| Key ID Features: | |
| The main fern used in flower arrangements; fronds triangular-shaped, leathery, shiny (plastic-like), most 30-90cm long x 15-75cm wide, bipinnately compound (some larger pinnae may be divided further), pinnae alternating, most lanceolate, 2-5cm long, coarsely toothed; sori round, orange then black. | |