Lindsaea microphylla
6 Lacy Wedge-fern at Uriarra Village, ACT
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| Lindsaea microphylla | dcnicholls | 13 Mar 2023 | |
| Lindsaea microphylla | Tapirlord | 13 Mar 2023 |
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Significant sighting
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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
13 Mar 2023
It's been collected once before (from black moutain I believe), but certianly uncommon.
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.
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?
Location information
- Coordinates 148.841842-35.391583
- Altitude 989.5m
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Uriarra Village, ACT
Sighting information
- 8 Abundance
- 19 Feb 2023 10:41 AM Recorded on
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- Significant Featured Plants Ferns and Clubmosses Tapirlord Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Lindsaea microphylla
Species information
- Lindsaea microphylla Scientific name
- Lacy Wedge-fern Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 991.26m Recorded at altitude
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