J. Bot. (Schrader) 1800 (2): 78 (1801) APNI
Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Native
Rhizome creeping, often deeply buried, covered with coarse, pale brown, narrow scales having long hair-points. Fronds close together or distant, unbranched (very rarely bifid), 10–40 cm long, dimorphic with fertile fronds erect and longer than the more spreading sterile fronds. Stipe length variable, 5–25 cm long in sterile fronds, slender, brittle, red-brown to almost black, shiny. Lamina linear, once pinnate, glabrous. Pinnules shortly stalked, asymmetrically wedge-shaped to fan-shaped, up to 1 cm wide, usually wider than long; outer margin wavy, crenulate, toothed or lobed; veins radiating out from base; pinnules in fertile fronds obliquely deflexed. Sori extending along outer margin, protected by membranous indusium with frilled margin.
CVU, DunT, EGL, EGU, GipP, Glep, GGr, HFE, HNF, HSF, MonT, OtP, OtR, SnM, Strz, VRiv, VVP, WaP, WPro, Wim. All States, Norfolk Is. New Zealand, New Caledonia. Relatively common in open-forest, scrubs and heathland south of the Great Dividing Range, particularly on poorly drained soils of low nutrient status.
Fertile fronds stand erect and with their twisted, deflexed pinnae resemble a wood-screw in silhouette. Sterile fronds can be almost prostrate and hidden among herbage. When sterile, L. linearis is superficially similar to Asplenium flabellifolium (Aspleniaceae), but the fronds are shorter and less tapering.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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Wimmera | present | native | |
Glenelg Plain | present | native | |
Victorian Volcanic Plain | present | native | |
Victorian Riverina | present | native | |
Gippsland Plain | present | native | |
Otway Plain | present | native | |
Warrnambool Plain | present | native | |
Central Victorian Uplands | present | native | |
Greater Grampians | present | native | |
Dundas Tablelands | present | native | |
East Gippsland Lowlands | present | native | |
East Gippsland Uplands | present | native | |
Wilsons Promontory | present | native | |
Highlands-Southern Fall | present | native | |
Highlands-Northern Fall | present | native | |
Otway Ranges | present | native | |
Strzelecki Ranges | present | native | |
Monaro Tablelands | present | native | |
Highlands-Far East | present | native | |
Snowy Mountains | present | native |
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Western Australia |
South Australia |
Queensland |
New South Wales |
Australian Capital Territory |
Victoria |
Tasmania |