Very similar to A. aethiopicum, from which it differs in the scales on the rhizomes (underground runners): triangular, dark brown, more or less opaque with shortly hairy margins, not spirally curled in atroviride and thin, yellow, broadly triangular, lacking marginal hairs and often spirally curled in aethiopicum. Recorded from north and central coasts and coule be present but overlooked on the south coast.
Adiantum atroviride is listed in the following regions:
South Coast | Central Queensland
Places
Rewan, QLD