Polystichum fallax

{{Short description|Species of fern}}

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| image_caption = Growing at Mount Kaputar

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| genus = Polystichum

| species = fallax

| authority = Tindale

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Polystichum fallax is a species of fern in the Dryopteridaceae family, and was first described in 1955 by Mary Tindale.{{APNI2|id=|name=Polystichum fallax|access-date=2025-01-11}}{{cite journal|author=Tindale, M.D. |date=1955|title= Some notes on the genus Polystichum in south-eastern Australia|journal= Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales|pages= 80: 54, t. II| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34927174}}

The species is found from south-eastern Queensland to eastern New South Wales,{{Cite web |title=Polystichum fallax Tindale {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17413810-1 |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}} in open forest at moderate heights above sea level and often among rocks. {{cite journal|author=D.L. Jones|title= Polystichum fallax|journal= Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra|url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Polystichum%20fallax |access-date=11 January 2025}}