Coral Fern
Gleichenia microphylla
Family Gleicheniaceae
Restricted Trade Species — ACT: Restricted Trade Species, SA: Rare
About
Gleichenia microphylla is a small fern growing in Australia and New Zealand.
How to spot it
Gleichenia microphylla's rachis on major branches has conspicuous and numerous bundles of bristles that are shiny, short, and amber to dark brown in colour. It also has less numerous and scattered fringed scales. It has 2 to 6 cm long linear ultimate branches with close-set pinnules. The undersurface of pinna-rachis has no hairs or scales.
Documented on these trails
Found in
- Deep Creek National Park — Adelaide, the Hills & Fleurieu Peninsula hikes