''Pteris comans'' is a

fern A fern (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta ) is a member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. The polypodiophytes include all living pteridophytes exce ...

from eastern Australia and

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

. The habitat of the hairy bracken or netted brake is rainforest or moist open forest. The botanist

Johann Georg Adam Forster Johann George Adam Forster, also known as Georg Forster (, 27 November 1754 – 10 January 1794), was a German natural history, naturalist, ethnology, ethnologist, travel literature, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary. At an early age ...

published this plant in Halle, the year 1786, in his Florulae Insularum Australium Prodromus. The specific epithet ''comans'' is derived from Latin, meaning "covered with hair".

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comans Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Flora of Victoria (Australia) Flora of Tasmania Flora of New Zealand Plants described in 1786 {{Pteridaceae-stub