- Reference
- Hist.Fil. 295 (1875)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Mixed (Native in Part of Range, Naturalised Elsewhere)
- Name Status
- Current
Rhizomatous, perennial, herb or (fern), 0.5-4 m high, fronds 2-3-pinnate-pinnatifid; lamina margin reflexed; sori linear, in an interrupted marginal band. Fl. Aug. Wet rock face of a gorge.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain, Victoria Bonaparte, Warren.
- IBRA Subregions
- Dandaragan Plateau, Fitzgerald, Keep, Perth, Southern Jarrah Forest, Warren.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Albany, Augusta Margaret River, Busselton, Capel, Chittering, Denmark, Gingin, Gnowangerup, Manjimup, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, Rockingham, Swan, Wyndham-East Kimberley.
Nuytsia Journal Articles
A new record for the fern flora of south-western Australia: a single plant of Histiopteris incisa from Mt Lindesay
WARDELL-JOHNSON, G., Nuytsia 13 (1): 259–260 (1999)
A single large (rhizome length 0.4 m, leaf length 0.5 m) individual of the cosmopolitan fern Histiopteris incisa (Thunb.) J. Sm. (Dennstaedtiaceae) was located on the lower south-western slopes (altitude 110 m) of Mt Lindesay on 3 January 1999. The plant was found growing in a partially shaded, horizontal crevice of a large granite boulder 1.5 m from the ground and 100 metres up a steep slope to the east of the Denmark River. The general area included substantial areas of outcropping in otherwise woodland/forest habitat. This is the first record of this species from south-western Australia, and increases the pteridophyte flora (ferns and fern allies) of the Jarrah Forest Bioregion to 30.