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Dicranopteris linearis (Burm.f.) Underw.
Family Gleicheniaceae
Dicranopteris linearis (Burm.f.) Underw. APNI*

Description: Rhizome (1.5-) 2–4 mm diam.; internodes to 6 cm long. Stipes 10–82 cm or more long, glabrous. Rachis clothed at first with brown branched hairs, glabrescent. Ultimate segments linear, 18–40 (-70) mm long, 3–5 mm wide, divided almost to midrib, glabrous above, clothed below with branched hairs near base of midrib and minute oblong obtuse brown glands along veins or more rarely with hairs along midrib and veins; undersurface slightly to very glaucous. Sorus length one-quarter to one-third the distance from midrib to margin. Sporangia 0.2–0.25 mm diam., pale yellow-brown.


Distribution and occurrence:
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC
Other Australian states: Qld N.T.


One variety in NSW : Dicranopteris linearis var. linearis

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