Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes - Online edition

Schizaea malaccana


Family

Schizaeaceae

Botanical name

Schizaea malaccana Baker

Link to Australian Plant Name Index for publication details and synonyms: https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/116292

Description

Rhizome short-creeping, densely clothed with pale yellow-brown hairs. Fronds clustered, erect, undivided, subterete, 6–27 cm long, 0.7–0.9 mm wide, smooth but with scattered, short thick appressed hairs; upper surface flat to shallowly grooved; lower surface rounded with 2 narrow grooves; sterile fronds absent; sporogenous heads 5–10 mm long, 1.5–3 times longer than broad, narrowly triangular; segments 3–5 mm long with scattered appressed hairs; margins with coarse hair-like teeth. Sporangia not mixed with hairs. 

Distribution

Known in Australia from Cape York and Fraser Island in SE QLD. Also in Malesia and Pacific Islands.

Habit and habitat

Terrestrial in sandy soil near seepage in coastal areas.

Cultivation

Considered difficult to propagate and establish.

Citation of Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes

Field AR, Quinn CJ, Zich FA (2022) Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes. apps.lucidcentral.org/fern/text/intro/index.htm (accessed online INSERT DATE).

Field AR, Quinn CJ, Zich FA (2022) ‘Platycerium superbum’, in Australian Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes. apps.lucidcentral.org/fern/text/entities/platycerium_superbum.htm (accessed online INSERT DATE).

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