title: Hymenophyllum wilsonii
text: # Hymenophyllum wilsonii
  
  Hymenophyllum wilsonii, the Wilson's filmy-fern, is a small, fragile, perennial leptosporangiate fern which forms large dense colonies from creeping rhizomes.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  Confined to western Europe (Britain, Ireland, France, Norway, Spain and The Faeroes) and Macaronesia.
  
  ## Gallery
  
  * Detail of Hymenophyllum wilsonii fronds. Indusia are present.
  * Hymenophyllum wilsonii colony.
  * Hymenophyllum wilsonii habitat. Near Kendal, Cumbria, England.
  