Hot Rock Fern at Garran, ACT
Identification history
| Pellaea calidirupium | 22 Sep 2015 | MichaelMulvaney |
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User's notes
Amongst dacite boulders near Davidson Trig Red Hill nature reserve
4 comments
dcnicholls
wrote:
21 Jul 2015
This looks more like P. falcata. The check is the presence of dark stalks that have lost their pinnae, and uniform width of pinnae. I can't quite tell from the photos. I should wander up to the trig point and have a look.
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
21 Jul 2015
Thanks David I have also thought of it as falcata, but when I saw my photo I thought that the white hairs were distinctive of calidirupium and that they should be brown on falcata - am I looking at the wrong thing or have I my colours confused?
dcnicholls
wrote:
21 Jul 2015
I think the two hybridise, so it's not a simple matter. If the lower pinnae are substantially broader than the middle and upper ones, I'd say P. calidirupium. If they are much the same, P. falcata.
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
21 Jul 2015
Thanks for the tip David, I think the pinnae were much the same length but will check when next up there.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.116302-35.336594
- Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve
- Places Garran, ACT
Sighting information
- 101 - 1,000 Abundance
- 23 Apr 2013 12:00 AM Recorded on
- MichaelMulvaney Recorded by
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Collections
Plants Ferns and Clubmosses MichaelMulvaney
Species information
- Pellaea calidirupium Scientific name
- Hot Rock Fern Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 984m Recorded at altitude
- 169 images trained Machine learning
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In flower
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