Family: Adiantaceae
Plant: A fern up to 1m high, often growing in large colonies.
Fronds: Dark green broadly triangular 60-100cm long. 3-4 pinnate with rounded pinna. Glabrous stems are long, shiny and dark brown or black.
Sori: Elongated with 5-9 per lobe in depressions along the margins of the frond.
Rhizome: Long, creeping, much-branched, deeply buried and covered with dark brown scales.
Habitat: Coastal rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest - common in gullies and along creek banks.
Features: Widely creeping rhizome. Large branched fronds. Sori arrangement.
Name:
Adiantum From Greek = not too wet.
formosum From Latin formosus = beautiful.
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Fern |
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Trunk |
No trunk |
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Fronds |
Form |
Compound |
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Length (Total) |
Very Long |
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Other Features |
- |
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Sori |
Arrangement |
Near margins |
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Rhizome |
Type |
Creeping, Underground |
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Other Features |
Scaly |
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Habitat |
Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest |
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