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Histiopteris incisa (Thunb.) J.Sm.

Reference
Hist.Fil. 295 (1875)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Mixed (Native in Part of Range, Naturalised Elsewhere)
Name Status
Current

Rhizomatous, perennial, herb or (fern), 0.5-4 m high, fronds 2-3-pinnate-pinnatifid; lamina margin reflexed; sori linear, in an interrupted marginal band. Fl. Aug. Wet rock face of a gorge.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 22 October 1997

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, Victoria Bonaparte, Warren.
IBRA Subregions
Dandaragan Plateau, Fitzgerald, Keep, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Augusta Margaret River, Busselton, Capel, Chittering, Denmark, Gingin, Gnowangerup, Manjimup, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, Rockingham, Swan, Wyndham-East Kimberley.

Nuytsia Journal Articles

A new record for the fern flora of south-western Australia: a single plant of Histiopteris incisa from Mt Lindesay

WARDELL-JOHNSON, G., Nuytsia 13 (1): 259–260 (1999)

Details
A single large (rhizome length 0.4 m, leaf length 0.5 m) individual of the cosmopolitan fern Histiopteris incisa (Thunb.) J. Sm. (Dennstaedtiaceae) was located on the lower south-western slopes (altitude 110 m) of Mt Lindesay on 3 January 1999. The plant was found growing in a partially shaded, horizontal crevice of a large granite boulder 1.5 m from the ground and 100 metres up a steep slope to the east of the Denmark River. The general area included substantial areas of outcropping in otherwise woodland/forest habitat. This is the first record of this species from south-western Australia, and increases the pteridophyte flora (ferns and fern allies) of the Jarrah Forest Bioregion to 30.