Pneumatopteris pennigera, commonly known as lime fern, gully fern, feather fern and piupiu,[1] is a small fern found in south eastern Australia and New Zealand. It grows along streams, and is also seen in areas of open forest.
Lime fern | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Division: | Polypodiophyta |
Class: | Polypodiopsida |
Order: | Polypodiales |
Suborder: | Aspleniineae |
Family: | Thelypteridaceae |
Genus: | Pneumatopteris |
Species: | P. pennigera |
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Pneumatopteris pennigera (G.Forst.) Holttum | |
This fern is found in Tasmania, Victoria and New Zealand. Curiously, there is a record of it occurring in the northern Australian state of Queensland.[2] But there is not a reliable record of it occurring in New South Wales, which is south of Queensland and north of the other locations where this plant is known to exist.
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