Pellaea calidirupium

Hot Rock Fern at Garran, ACT

Pellaea calidirupium at Garran, ACT - 29 Aug 2015
Pellaea calidirupium at Garran, ACT - 29 Aug 2015
Pellaea calidirupium at Garran, ACT - 29 Aug 2015
Pellaea calidirupium at Garran, ACT - 29 Aug 2015
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Identification history

Pellaea calidirupium 21 Sep 2015 dcnicholls
Pellaea falcata 21 Sep 2015 MichaelMulvaney
Unidentified 21 Sep 2015 MichaelMulvaney

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Just Below Davidson Trig on Eastern slope of Red Hill, amongst dacite boulders

4 comments

   22 Sep 2015
I've lost my confidence in being able to tell the species of Pellaea apart, hopefully you can set me right David. These are plants from the same location as the earlier Pellaea postings from Red Hill
dcnicholls wrote:
   22 Sep 2015
Not simple, but the short broad pinnae on some fronds indicate Pellaea calidirupium, Pellaea calidirupium and falcata (and also Cheilanthes) in the ACT are difficult, and probably hybridise.
   22 Sep 2015
Thanks David
dcnicholls wrote:
   22 Sep 2015
Another indicator for P. calidirupium (in vivo, not pressed) is that many of the pinna blades are angled to the plane of the frond, whereas with P. falcata, the pinnae and frond are in the same plane.

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