Asplenium trichomanes

Common Spleenwort at Kambah, ACT

Asplenium trichomanes at Kambah, ACT - suppressed
Asplenium trichomanes at Kambah, ACT - suppressed
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Asplenium trichomanes 12 Jun 2025 Tapirlord
Asplenium flabellifolium 12 Jun 2025 CarbonAI
Asplenium trichomanes 12 Jun 2025 Tapirlord

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Tapirlord noted:

12 Jun 2025

A new location of this locally rare fern, and the first on the murrumbidgee i believe.

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New ACT location

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dcnicholls wrote:
   12 Jun 2025
Looks it’s on limestone?
Tapirlord wrote:
   13 Jun 2025
Yep. That seems to be the theme with this one
dcnicholls wrote:
   13 Jun 2025
Many years ago Max Gray in CSIRO told me that A. trichomanes almost always was associated with limestone. So I went out to the Cotter Cave, a local limestone outcrop, and sure enough, the area was 'infested" with the fern. Might be interesting for someone to check if it is still growing there (I no longer live in Canberra). The 2003 bushfires might have had some effect on it.

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