Plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: R Hill, Maldon, Vic

Plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: R Hill, Maldon, Vic

Plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Cocoparra National Park, NSW

Common Name

Rock Fern

Family

Pteridaceae

Notes

Fern to 45cm tall or taller or prostrate.  Leaves scattered along the stems or crowded.  Leaves 12-45cm long or more, 30-160mm broad, hairless above, sparsely scaly below, divided into segments which are again once- or twice-lobed, the edges scalloped and often curved down. Family Adiantaceae in SA.

Differs from Cheilanthes sieberi ssp. sieberi in that the fronds are broadly triangular, 3-16cm wide at the widest point.

Description (as Cheilanthes tenuifolia ssp. tenuifolia) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 30

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cheilanthes~austrotenuifolia