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Rock Coral-Fern

Rock Coral-Fern

Gleichenia rupestris

Family Gleicheniaceae

Critically Endangered — VIC: Critically Endangered

About

Gleichenia rupestris is a small fern growing in eastern Australia. Referred to as one of the coral ferns. The specific epithet rupestris refers to it being seen growing near rocks.

How to spot it

Real occurrence confirmed near Mount Buangor State Park (Atlas of Living Australia, 2025) — no separate physical description was available on Wikipedia for this species, see the source link for more.

Documented on these trails

Found in

Source: Atlas of Living Australia + Wikipedia: Gleichenia rupestris

Photo via iNaturalist Australia (CC-BY 4.0 (Int)), collected by grampianshiker