Description: Fronds tufted. Common fern of evergreen forest floor. Stipe straw coloured and glabrous. Pinnae, pinnatifid and thinly textured with veins free; spines on costae and costules on upper surface. Sori linear, marginal and continuous for most of the pinna's length.
Description: Perennial with short creeping rhizome. Fronds erect, soft, stipe pilose, lamina linear-lanceolate, 2-pinnate to 3-pinnatifid, pinnae sparsely pubescent. Sori discrete on margins of incurved pinnule lobes, indusium minute. Not sure of the var.
Description: Lamina uniformly pinnate throughout, with the size of pinnae reducing towards the base. Pinna margins serrulate and the sori linear and continuous along the margin. Spotted in a wet spot amongst Phoenix reclinata, about 20m from riverbank.
Description: 30cm tall. Completely naturalised in rock crevice. It really looks like it has NO influence on the natural ecosystem. But: commonly we believe all aliens have detrimental effect. Competition-wise it must have displaced something.
Description: Widespread but seldom common. Occurring in forests but often where there is a break in forest canopy. Fronds tufted. Lamina ovate, 2-pinnatifed; ultimate pinnae lobes unequally adnate to costa. Glabrous on both surfaces with spines at vein junctions along costa on upper surface. Sori linear, marginal and continuous along the sides of the ultimate lobes.
Description: Fronds tufted, dimorphic. Fertile lamina twice as large as sterile lamina. Pinnae attenuate, linear with basiscopic subpinna at base; glabrous on both surfaces and margins entire. Sori marginal and continuous. Always terrestrial; wide range of habitats.
Description: Growing in moist, partially shaded parts of riverine forest. Tufted, erect fronds up to 2.5m tall. Sori set in single row, 1mm from each pinna margin. Sori circular, but have a kindney shaped appreance due to the indusium (membranous cover) that opens towards the pinna margin.
Description: Mossy earth banks in evergreen forest. Widely spreading. Stipe dark brown to black, glabrous. Lamina 2- to 4- pinnate. Pinnules deciduous, obdeltate, cuneate, glabrous; veins ending in crenate margins. Sori along margins;green, glabrous, oblong to reniform.
Description: Lower lamina has long, reddish brown, hair-like scales. Note in Crouch et al. 'Ferns of S.A.' says C.induta is found at altitudes 500-2000m. These photos were taken at 12m. Habitat doesn't fit either,
Description: A deciduous perennial to annual herb with underground tubers. The leaves are lobed, giving the appearance of lots of soft leaves. Leaves grows erect or laying flat on the ground. The leaf edges are scalloped edged. Leaves can grow to 10cm long. The leaves are hairy underneath and the spores are round and in the centre of the leaves. A lithophyte.
Description: A deciduous perennial to annual herb. The leaves are lobed giving the appearance of lots of smaller leaves are smooth and scallop edged and can grow to 10cm long. The stipes are smooth or slightly covered with soft hair and red-brown. The leaves are smooth underneath, and the spores are arranged in small groups in the form of a sickle on the edges of the leaves, are slightly hairy. A lithophyte.
