Scientific Name: Gleichenia dicarpa

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  • Common Name:
    Pouched coral fern
  • Type:
    Fern can form large , tangled thickets.
  • Family:
    GLEICHENIACEAE
  • Status:
    Common, widespread.
  • 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).