Windswept ridges and drainages, In Metrosideros-Cheirodendron-Weinmannia montane wet forest and Cyathea-Freycinetia interspersed with rich pteridophyte Search this
Det. "aff. Lindsaea pulchra var." by Takehisa Nakamura 3 July 2007. DL believes it is a depauperate form of L. propinqua, as L. pulchra is not know from French Polynesia.