Lindsaea microphylla

6 Lacy Wedge-fern at Uriarra Village, ACT

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Identification history

	Lindsaea microphylla	13 Mar 2023	dcnicholls
	Lindsaea microphylla	13 Mar 2023	Tapirlord

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Significant sighting

Tapirlord noted:

13 Mar 2023

Second ever record and a new location of this fern from the ACT. I believe the other collection was from black moutain.

User's notes

Only the 2nd ACT record in an area known for rare ferns

4 comments

dcnicholls wrote:

13 Mar 2023

New find for the ACT, I think.

Tapirlord wrote:

13 Mar 2023

It's been collected once before (from black moutain I believe), but certianly uncommon.

gregbaines wrote:

14 Mar 2023

I would love to come along if you arrange this trip. It would be good to raise the value of this area with Parks and Cons so that we don't inadvertently damage it.

dcnicholls wrote:

14 Mar 2023

That's important. Back in the 1960s, Dr Nancy Burbidge identified a gully in the Blue Range as a site of special scientific interest. It was marked with a metal sign identifying its importance. I visited it several times in the late 1970s. It was an exquisite ferny, mossy glen with 4 metre high Dicksonia tree ferns. Then in the late 1980s, I found that it had been ravaged (= totally destroyed) when the surrounding pine plantations were being clear felled. The tree ferns were being cut off and taken away. A year or two later the whole area was a blackberry choked nightmare. (Same thing happened further up the same gully to a grove of rare Todea barbara "King" ferns. Now long gone.) The question is, how does one record such sites so that later generations of "forresters" don't destroy things?

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