Common Name

Narrow-leaf Nardoo

Family

Marsileaceae

Notes

Fern, to 12cm tall, prostrate.  Leaves in groups arising from the underground stem, each composed of 4 leaflets, each 0.1-1cm long, 0.7-5mm wide, flat, hairless to sparsely hairy. 

Description and photo (page 32) and line drawing of spore case (page 33 Fig. 3a) (as Marsilea angustifolia) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales

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

Plant. Photographer Russell Best, west of Melbourne, Vic