Plant Details

Scientific Name: Gleichenia dicarpa
  • Common Name: Pouched coral fern
  • Type: Fern, can form large, tangled thickets.
  • Family: GLEICHENIACEAE
  • Status: Common, widespread.
  • Size: to 4 metres
  • Flowers: Ferns do not have flowers or Fruit but produce spores on the backs of their Leaves throughout the year.
  • Vegetation Type: Moist, sunny.
  • Species List: Cranks Creek, Batianoff 87, Upper Yandina Creek, TAFE NNS Fern Track Girraween

Identification Notes

Margins of the pinnules (leaflets) turn under to form a pouch in which there are usually two sporangia (Spore cases).

  • Gleichenia dicarpa
  • Gleichenia dicarpa
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