Family: Aspleniaceae
Pleurosorus rutifolius
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.
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Image source: fig. 35 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Image source: fig. 35 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Cochrane et al. (1980) Flowers and plants of Victoria and Tasmania, fig. 214.
Distribution:
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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.
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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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