Citation: Fée, Gen. Fil. 179 (1852).

Synonymy: Grammitis rutaefolia R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 146 (18!0); P. rutaefolius (R. Br.)Fée (1852), an orthographic variant.

Common name: Blanket-fern.

Description:
Fronds small, rarely more than 12 cm long, pinnate, densely clad in whitish to ferruginous eglandular hairs (sometimes some with glandular heads) hairs c. 1 mm long and those of the stipe and rhachis usually with well-defined dark-brown nodes (septae); pinnules flabellate-cuneate to oblong, often deeply incised; sori linear-oblong, on veins, often coalescing when old and completely covering the undersurface.

	Pleurosorus rutifolius
Image source: fig. 35 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

	Pleurosorus rutifolius
Image source: fig. 35 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cochrane et al. (1980) Flowers and plants of Victoria and Tasmania, fig. 214.

Distribution:  Grows on banks and in rock crevices, often in open situations, and is particularly common in the Gawler, Flinders and Mount Lofty Ranges.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.   New Zealand. 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

Biology: No text

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