![Lace fern](https://teara.govt.nz/files/o-11253-wmu.jpg)
William Colenso was a passionate collector of botanical specimens. On his 1841 journey he collected and described this lace fern, Leptolepia novae-zelandiae.
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MA_I.033608
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