Adiantum meishanianum grows only near a suspension bridge in Meishan Village near the South Cross-Island Highway. Though the bridge survived the flooding caused by the typhoon, the state of the adjacent river habitat remains unclear because the road was completely cut off and nobody has been able to reach the area since. This is distressing, and it makes the nine individual plants kept at the conservation center that much more precious.
由於梅山鐵線蕨只生長在南橫公路梅山村的吊橋邊，吊橋在莫拉克風災中雖未被沖毀，但緊鄰河道的棲地卻因為聯外道路全斷，至今無法進入，令人憂心不已，而保種中心內僅有的 9 株，也因而倍顯珍貴。