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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Dryopteridaceae
Cyrtomium falcatum

Citation: C. Presl, Tent. Pref. 86 (1836).

Synonymy: Polypodium falcatum L.f., Suppl. 446 (1781).

Common name: Holly fern.

Description:
Rhizome short, erect, densely clad with dark-brown scales; fronds to 1 m long; stipe pale-brown, scaly; lamina pinnate; pinnule thick and coriaceous; sori scattered on the undersurface, rounded, covered with a peltate indusium.

Distribution:  Occasional on shaded banks or in rock crevices.

S.Aust.: MU, SL, SE.   Adventive in Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.   Native of Japan.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: No flowering time is available


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