Scientific Name: Schizaea bifida
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Common Name:Forked Comb Fern
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Type:
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Family:SCHIZAEACEAE
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Vegetation Type:Wallum Woodland
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Species List:EdingtonDr, Cooroibah, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, Cooroibah 26.4.09, Kingfisher Bay Resort, Batianoff 87, TAFE NNP Tanglewood Noosa North Shore PS Arthur Harrold NR, NNS,
Identification Notes
Sterile lamina simple or irregularly forked at about or below the middle - not fan-shaped.Lamina mostly 1-3 times forked sometimes more rarely simple sporangia bearing segments fringed with fine hairs sporangia mixed with fine brown hairs Fertile fronds held higher than leaves.||"Fronds clustered, erect, mostly 25–35 cm high. Sterile fronds simple or irregularly divided into 2–20 segments, usually with the first dichotomy below the middle, shorter than fertile fronds, c. 1 mm wide. Fertile fronds 10–45 cm long, simple or divided dichotomously usually 1–2, rarely 3, times, smooth to scabrous, fertile portion 10–20 mm long, 5–10 mm wide. " (PlantNet)