Family: Aspleniaceae
Asplenium flabellifolium
Citation:
Cav., Descr. Plant. 257 (1801).
Synonymy: A. flavelifolium Cav. (1801), in error.
Common name: Necklace fern.
Description:
Rhizome very short; fronds few, at first erect but becoming prostrate; stipe weak; lamina narrow-linear; pinnules flabellate or reniform-cuneate; rhachis glabrous, elongating beyond the pinnae and often rooting at its tip and producing a new plant.
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Image source: fig. 34b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 31.
Distribution:
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Common on banks or amongst rocks in moist situations. Often forming large colonies by proliferation.
S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, SL, KI, SE. W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. New Zealand.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
Not yet available
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