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Original St John collection.

Photo of plant on Mt Buffalo, November 2006.

Common name

Rock Fern

Family

Adiantaceae

Grimwade Sheet No.

26

Original identification

Cheilanthes tenuifolia

Distribution (from Flora of Victoria)

Vic.  All regions except GHL, SNOW - also WA, SA, Tas.

Usually growing among rocks, in crevices, or around boulders, but also on slopes or in valleys of open-forest, along streams and in scrub.  It spreads by means of a creeping rhizome as well as by sexual reproduction.

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Flowering time

n/a