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Ferns and Clubmosses
Sighting 4417489

Notogrammitis billardierei

1 Finger Fern at Monga, NSW

Notogrammitis billardierei at Monga, NSW - 9 Jan 2022
Notogrammitis billardierei at Monga, NSW - 9 Jan 2022
Notogrammitis billardierei at Monga, NSW - 9 Jan 2022
Notogrammitis billardierei at Monga, NSW - 9 Jan 2022
Notogrammitis billardierei at Monga, NSW - 9 Jan 2022
Notogrammitis billardierei at Monga, NSW - 9 Jan 2022
Notogrammitis billardierei at Monga, NSW - 9 Jan 2022
Notogrammitis billardierei at Monga, NSW - 9 Jan 2022
Notogrammitis billardierei at Monga, NSW - 9 Jan 2022
Notogrammitis billardierei at Monga, NSW - 9 Jan 2022
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Identification history

Notogrammitis billardierei 10 Jan 2022 dcnicholls
Unidentified 9 Jan 2022 trevorpreston

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7 comments

dcnicholls wrote:
   10 Jan 2022
Possibly Blechnum patersonii, but I've sought a second opinion. This area might be better covered in the Coastal Wilderness website, as it's in a very different climatic type than the Canberra region. See https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/atlas-of-life-in-the-coastal-wilderness
dcnicholls wrote:
   10 Jan 2022
A more likely possibility is that it is a Grammitis species. Where was it growing? On a tree fern trunk?
dcnicholls wrote:
   10 Jan 2022
I've ID'd it as G. billardierei
trevorpreston wrote:
   10 Jan 2022
Yes, was out of a trunk, don't know if it was a tree or fern trunk, everything was so covered in moss it was hard to tell.
dcnicholls wrote:
   10 Jan 2022
G. billardierei often grows on trunks (tree ferns etc) so this tends to confirm the ID, but may be G. meridionalis, depending how long the fronds are. How long were the longer fronds?
trevorpreston wrote:
   11 Jan 2022
The longest frond was about 40-50mm.
dcnicholls wrote:
   11 Jan 2022
Based on Jones & Clemesha, it looks like the ID should be Grammitis meridionalis, but CSIRO's much more recent Flora of Australia says the latter is just a small habitat version of G. billardierei. So the ID stands.

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Additional information

  • Less than 10cm Plant height

Species information

  • Notogrammitis billardierei Scientific name
  • Finger Fern Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 550m Recorded at altitude
  • Machine learning

  • Synonyms

    Grammitis billardierei

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