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Sighting 4311

Cheilanthes austrotenuifolia

Rock Fern at Hackett, ACT

Cheilanthes austrotenuifolia at Hackett, ACT - 14 Apr 2014
Cheilanthes austrotenuifolia at Hackett, ACT - 14 Apr 2014
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Cheilanthes austrotenuifolia 19 Mar 2023 natureguy
Cheilanthes tenuifolia 15 Apr 2014 AaronClausen
Unidentified 14 Apr 2014 AaronClausen

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6 comments

waltraud wrote:
   29 Sep 2017
what is the identifying feature? how to distinuish from other Cheilanthes?
dcnicholls wrote:
   29 Sep 2017
I'd like to see a close up of the fronds before endorsing this ID. C.(austro)tenuifolia has fine lacy fronds rather than shorter cured up ones.
waltraud wrote:
   29 Sep 2017
Aaron any chance to go back and take close ups? I'm reluctant to enter C.(austro)tenuifolia on our species list at this stage. To my knowledge the species has so far not been recorded on Mt Majura; this would be the first record.
dcnicholls wrote:
   30 Sep 2017
It's not clear to me that what we called "Cheilanthes tenuifolia" is different from C. austrotenuifolia. I think it was a reassignment exercise. So recordings of C. tenuifolia should be C. austrotenuifolia. I have seen numerous nice C. tenuifolia/austrotenuifolia specimens in the pine plantation on Mt Majura (back in the late 1970s.)
waltraud wrote:
   10 Oct 2017
Hi
the Census Version 4.0, 2017 lists Cheilanthes austrotenuifolia only; perhaps the species name has changed from tenuifolia to austrotenuifolia?
dcnicholls wrote:
   10 Oct 2017
That's what I was thinking.

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