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Ferns and Clubmosses
Sighting 3360202

Ophioglossum lusitanicum

Adder's Tongue at Majura, ACT

Ophioglossum lusitanicum at Majura, ACT - 25 Sep 2016 09:15 AM
Ophioglossum lusitanicum at Majura, ACT - 25 Sep 2016 09:15 AM
Ophioglossum lusitanicum at Majura, ACT - 25 Sep 2016 09:15 AM
Ophioglossum lusitanicum at Majura, ACT - 25 Sep 2016 09:15 AM
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waltraud wrote:
   21 Aug 2019
The ACT Census of vascular plants doesn't list subsp. coriaceum and PlantNet, see link below,
lists:
Ophioglossum lusitanicum L.
Synonyms: Ophioglossum lusitanicum subsp. coriaceum (A.Cunn.) Clausen APNI*
Ophioglossum coriaceum A.Cunn. APNI*
I wonder whether to correct, ie get rid of "subsp. coriaceum"
Waltraud

http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ophioglossum~lusitanicum
dcnicholls wrote:
   21 Aug 2019
The subsp. coriaceum dates back to Max Gray's time in the late 1970s (as in a list he gave me in 1978). Perhaps I'm cynical, but some botanists, perennially short of field work funding, work from pressed specimens, and seem to over indulge in taxonomical activities. Numbers of fern species have been renamed over the years (e.g., Culcita dubia) and I wonder how useful this is. But I'm not a botanist and astrophysics has its own taxonomical problems!

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  • True In flower
  • Less than 10cm Plant height

Species information

  • Ophioglossum lusitanicum Scientific name
  • Adder's Tongue Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 4050.8m Recorded at altitude
  • 49 images trained Machine learning

  • Synonyms

    Ophioglossum lusitanicum subsp. coriaceum

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