Soft Treefern at Cotter River, ACT
Identification history
| Dicksonia antarctica | 23 Sep 2014 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Dicksonia antarctica | 23 Sep 2014 | MichaelDoherty | ||
| Unidentified | 23 Aug 2014 | AaronClausen |
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2 comments
MichaelDoherty
wrote:
23 Sep 2014
Depending on exactly where it is in Namadgi NP, highly likely to be soft tree fern - if so, will have a trunk under all of those fronds. Certainly not a Blechnum (which you can see on right side of photo) and too big for Polystichum.
dcnicholls
wrote:
24 Sep 2014
It is definitely a Dicksonia antarctica. The numerous dead fronds hanging down beside the trunk are characteristic, as are the convex frond surfaces. Cyathea australis has concave fronds, as viewed from above. This means of discriminating is not listed in the keys, as they are almost always derived from pressed specimens. There must be a large reservoir of C. australis somewhere in the ACT mountains, but I have yet to find it. D. antarctica is very common in ACT fern gullies.
Location information
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Cotter River, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- AaronClausen Recorded by
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Collections
Plants Ferns and Clubmosses AaronClausen Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Dicksonia antarctica Scientific name
- Soft Treefern Common name
- Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 160 images trained Machine learning
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In flower
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