Family: Adiantaceae
Plant: One of the most common and best known ferns. It grows up to 30cm high, often in large, dense colonies.
Fronds: Numerous erect or semi-erect pale green, bipinnate fronds with delicate rounded pinnules attached by thin petioles. The new growth is pinkish. The stipes are shiny, reddish-brown and tufted. The sterile fronds have segments 3-8mm long whilst on fertile fronds the segments are smaller.
Sori: Large, kidney-shaped, with 1-7 located in lobe margins.
Rhizome: Long, creeping, much branched and covered with brownish papery scales.
Habitat: Usually favouring moist, rocky areas in rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest - common in gullies and along creek banks.
Features: Vigorous suckering habit. Sori arrangement.
Name:
Adiantum From Greek = not too wet.
aethiopicum From Latin = Ethiopia (referring to where the first specimen was collected).
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Type |
Fern |
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Trunk |
No trunk |
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Fronds |
Form |
Compound |
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Length (Total) |
Medium |
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Other Features |
- |
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Sori |
Arrangement |
Near margins |
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Rhizome |
Type |
Creeping |
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Other Features |
Scaly |
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Habitat |
Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest |
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