Schizaea bifida Willd.

Species

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Characteristics

Rhizome short-creeping, densely clothed with glossy pale to dark brown hairs. Fronds clustered, erect, 7–55 cm long, 0.6–1.2 mm wide, subterete, and furrowed on 1 side or flattened, smooth to scabrid, undivided or dichotomously divided 1 or more times (to 32 branchlets), pubescent at first, becoming smooth or scabrid; sterile fronds shorter and more divided than sporogenous ones or, more rarely, absent; sporogenous heads ovate-triangular to obliquely oblong, 5–30 mm long, 2–4 times longer than broad, broadest near the base, tapering distally, often recurved; segments 5–12 mm long, smooth to scabrid; margins with long, brown hairs. Sporangia mixed with pale brown hairs.
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Rhizome up to 5 mm. or more diam., clad in brown hairs. Stipes (including branches) 10-30 cm. long, c. 1 mm. diam., strict to somewhat flexuous, scabrid by minute asperities; branches 2-3, rarely more, 5-15 cm. long, narrowly winged. Lamina up to 2 cm. long and 1 cm. broad; segs secund, approximate, fringed, 10-20, up to 1cm. long. Sporangia distinctly less than 0·5 mm. diam.
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Grows in sclerophyll forest, coastal heathlands and swamps.
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-11

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Images

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Distribution

Schizaea bifida world distribution map, present in Australia and New Zealand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17220380-1
WFO ID wfo-0000151397
COL ID 6XVQY
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INPN ID 671586
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Synonyms

Schizaea asperula Schizaea bifida