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Family: Thelypteridaceae
Christella dentata

Citation: Brownsey & Jermy. Brit. Fern Gaz. 10:338 (1973).

Synonymy: Polypodium dentatum Forsskål, Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. 185 (1775); Dryopteris parasitica sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 38 (1943), non (L.)Kuntze., Cyclosorus parasiticus sensu H. Eichler, Suppl. 29 (1965), non (L.)Farwell.

Common name: Soft shield-fern, binung.

Description:
Rhizome slow-creeping; stipes clustered; base of the stipe and rhizome clad with narrow brown setose scales; fronds pinnate; submembranous; stipe and rhachis stramineous, pilose; lamina, costae and costules pilose, pinnae pinnatifid, the lobes obliquely cut about half to two-thirds to the midrib, the lowermost pairs sometimes becoming reduced and distant; sori orbicular, indusium pilose.

image of FSA1_Christella_den2.jpg portio of pinna
Image source: fig. 44b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
image of FSA1_Christella_den1.jpg frond
Image source: fig. 44a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
image of FSA1_Christella_den3.jpg sorus
Image source: fig. 44c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Jones & Clemesha (1981) Australian ferns and fern-allies, pl. 41.

Distribution:  Widespread throughout the tropics and subtropics of the Old World. Occurs along the Murray River on damp banks or in hollows in the limestone cliffs.

S.Aust.: FR, EP, MU.   Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: No flowering time is available


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