Family: Gleicheniaceae
Plant: A common widespread species that often forms dense tangled thickets. It is a scrambling fern with much branched fronds
Fronds: Usually up to 2m long, pinnate on much-branched brown stems with segments 10cm long, dull pale green, leathery and hairy with strongly recurved margins.
Rhizome: Long, creeping, much-branched, slender, dark, wiry and covered with scales.
Sori: 2 sori at base of the segments are partially covered by a pouch.
Habitat: In both wet and dry sclerophyll forests where it often forms large colonies in sunny damp locations around swamps and at bases of cliffs where its roots are wet but its fronds are exposed to the sun.
Features: Tall straggly habit with upright branching fronds. Pouch-like segments on mature fronds.
Name:
Gleichenia After the German botanist W. F. von Gleichen
dicarpa From Greek = 2-fruited
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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) |
Very long |
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Other Features |
Toothed/Serrated |
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Sori |
Arrangement |
In rows |
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Rhizome |
Type |
Creeping |
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Other Features |
- |
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Habitat |
Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest, |
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Dry sclerophyll forest |
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