Scientific Name: Schizaea dichotoma

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  • Common Name:
    Branched Comb Fern
  • Type:
    Fern allie
  • Family:
    SCHIZAEACEAE
  • Vegetation Type:
    Sandy soil in dry forests and coastal heathlands.
  • Species List:
    NNP service road, Cooroibah 26.4.09, Batianoff 87, Noosa River NP, BHNR
Identification Notes

Sterile lamina many times forked above the middle in a fan-shaped arrangement; fertile fronds usually with 10 to many fertile heads||"Description: Fronds clustered, erect, mostly 20–40 cm high. Sterile fronds divided regularly into over 20 segments, the first dichotomy above the middle; mostly 15–30 cm long, 1–1.5 mm wide. Fertile fronds 20–50 cm long, slightly flattened, dichotomously divided 3 to 6 times, very scabrous, fertile portion 10–15 mm long, 5–8 mm wide. " (from PlantNet)"||