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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

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.

image of FSA1_Asplenium_fla2.jpg Asplenium flabellifolium. pinna
Image source: fig. 34b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 31.

Distribution:  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.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: No flowering time is available


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