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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Asplenium bulbiferum

Citation: Forster f., Fl. Insul. Aust. Prod. 80 (1786).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Hens and chickens, mother spleenwort.

Description:
Rhizome short, thick; fronds tufted, erect but spreading, mid-green, thick, soft; pinnae pinnate-pinnatisect or bipinnate, lanceolate; bulbils often on costules of the upper surface; sori submarginal, oblong but elliptic when old, indusiate; the indusium often obscure when old.

Published illustration: Heath & Chinnock (1975) Ferns and fern-allies of New Zealand, pl. 17.

Distribution:    Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   New Zealand.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: No flowering time is available


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