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Sighting 4436252

Asplenium subglandulosum

Blanket Fern at Cooma, NSW

Asplenium subglandulosum at Cooma, NSW - 3 Jun 2022 02:44 PM
Asplenium subglandulosum at Cooma, NSW - 3 Jun 2022 02:44 PM
Asplenium subglandulosum at Cooma, NSW - 3 Jun 2022 02:44 PM
Asplenium subglandulosum at Cooma, NSW - 3 Jun 2022 02:44 PM
Asplenium subglandulosum at Cooma, NSW - 3 Jun 2022 02:44 PM
Asplenium subglandulosum at Cooma, NSW - 3 Jun 2022 02:44 PM
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Identification history

Asplenium subglandulosum 3 Jun 2022 dcnicholls
Asplenium subglandulosum 3 Jun 2022 mahargiani

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4 comments

dcnicholls wrote:
   3 Jun 2022
If there are glandular tipped hairs, this should be P. subglandulosus but I can't tell from the photos
mahargiani wrote:
   5 Jun 2022
I'm not any sort of expert on taxonomy, however as a starting point see https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/4f3d1532-8467-4836-a12a-0767689d3a1d.
From this I understand that Pleurosorus was a segregate genus of Asplenium but that associated species are now in Asplenium again. Plus that the species distinction re glands on hairs is so variable that it is not deemed a valid distinction. I'll leave it with you, however, we definitely only want to have one scientific name for a species!
dcnicholls wrote:
   5 Jun 2022
Again we fall foul of taxonomists not have enough funding for field trips, so they start reclassifying species. Does anyone else have a view on the correct name? For the moment I'd suggest sticking with the simplest.
Tapirlord wrote:
   5 Jun 2022
From what I can find there isn't an Australia wide concensus, the ACT records both P.rutifolius and P.subglandulosus in the Cencus of Vascular plants. But Victoria certainly seems to regard the two as the same, see https://www.publish.csiro.au/sb/sb14043 , which is on the phylogeny of Australasian Aspleniaceae.

I think Rosemary would be a good person to pass this over to.

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Additional information

  • Less than 10cm Plant height

Species information

  • Asplenium subglandulosum Scientific name
  • Blanket Fern Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 1008.85m Recorded at altitude
  • 128 images trained Machine learning

  • Synonyms

    Pleurosorus rutifolius Pleurosorus subglandulosus

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