Family: Osmundaceae
Plant: A large tufted, spreading terrestrial fern up to 2m high with a fibrous trunk.
Trunk: A fibrous trunk up to 60cm high bearing. The trunk is fibrous on the outside but hard within.
Fronds: A crown of shiny dark green, leathery, bipinnate fronds up to 1m long with pale brown hairs on lower part of frond.
Sori: Dark brown covering the entire surface of the segments at the base of the fronds.
Rhizome: Underground
Habitat: On creek banks in and near rainforest.
Features: Fibrous trunk. Crown of large dark green leathery fronds.
Name:
Todea After the German clergyman and botanical author Henry Julius Tode.
barbara From Latin barbarus = foreign.
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Type |
Fern |
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Trunk |
With Trunk |
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Fronds |
Form |
Compound |
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Length (Total) |
Very long |
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Other Features |
Hairy |
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Sori |
Arrangement |
Covering surface |
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Rhizome |
Type |
Underground |
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Other Features |
- |
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Habitat |
Rainforest, Wet sclerophyll forest |
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