Asplenium trichomanes
Common Spleenwort at Kambah, ACT
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| Asplenium trichomanes | Tapirlord | 12 Jun 2025 | |
| Asplenium flabellifolium | CarbonAI | 12 Jun 2025 | |
| Asplenium trichomanes | Tapirlord | 12 Jun 2025 |
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Significant sighting
Tapirlord noted:
12 Jun 2025
A new location of this locally rare fern, and the first on the murrumbidgee i believe.
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New ACT location
3 comments
13 Jun 2025
Many years ago Max Gray in CSIRO told me that A. trichomanes almost always was associated with limestone. So I went out to the Cotter Cave, a local limestone outcrop, and sure enough, the area was 'infested" with the fern. Might be interesting for someone to check if it is still growing there (I no longer live in Canberra). The 2003 bushfires might have had some effect on it.
Location information
- Maps Bullen Range
- Places Kambah, ACT
Sighting information
- 20 Abundance
- Tapirlord Recorded by
- Less than 10cm Plant height
Collections
- Tapirlord NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Significant Asplenium trichomanes Ferns and Clubmosses Plants
Species information
- Asplenium trichomanes Scientific name
- Common Spleenwort Common name
- Sensitive
- Rare or uncommon native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1183.59m Recorded at altitude
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