Biology:Sticherus flabellatus

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Short description: Species of fern


Shiny fan fern
Shield Fern Elvina Bay.jpg
Shiny fan fern at Elvina Bay, Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Australia
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Gleicheniales
Family: Gleicheniaceae
Genus: Sticherus
Species:
S. flabellatus
Binomial name
Sticherus flabellatus
(R.Br.) H.St.John
Synonyms
  • Gleichenia flabellata R.Br.

Sticherus flabellatus is a small fern found in eastern Australia and in New Zealand, northwards from the north-west of the South Island. A common and attractive plant with shiny dark foliage and with slightly toothed edges on the smallest parts of the fronds. Often seen in large numbers in suitably moist gullies and by creeks.[1]

Two varieties are recognized that differ in size of the sporangia and the size of the ultimate segments.[2] The variety in New South Wales is Sticherus flabellatus var. flabellatus.

In 1810 it appeared as Gleichenia flabellata in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae, authored by Robert Brown.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q7616161 entry