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The Woolly Clock-Fern, also known as the Resurrection Fern (Cheilanthes lasiophylla), is native to Australia, getting its name because they often looked dry and dead looking. They will then spring back to life when it rains.
This fern has a slow-creeping rhizome, with fronds clustered, that are erect to about 25 cm in length. Stipe (the stalk of a fern frond), rhachis (the midrib of a frond), lamina that is densely clad in pale-brown scales and hairs (especially on the lower surface of the pinnae), with unprotected sori (cluster of spore-producing receptacles on the the underside of a fern frond).
Native to mainland Australia (although it is rare in Victoria), they can be found growing in rock crevices, rocky outcrops in arid zones and on rocky slopes in mountain ranges.
Common name
Resurrection Fern, Woolly Cloak-fern, Woolly Cloak Fern.
Cheilanthes is a genus of about 180 species of ferns that are typically found growing in dry, rocky areas in open woodland and exposed areas.
More info in Flora | Flora Index | Resurrection Fern.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Clade: Tracheophytes
- Class: Pteridopsida
- Order: Polypodiales
- Family: Pteridaceae
- Genus: Cheilanthes
- Species: Cheilanthes lasiophylla
Footnote & References
- Cheilanthes Sw., Flora of Australia, https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Cheilanthes
- Passion for Plants – Rising from the Dead, ABC Local, 14 July 2010, http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2010/07/14/2953430.htm (link no longer active)
Alice Springs FloraAlice Springs Flora Index Acacia ligulata Annual Yellowtop Apple Bush Bougainvillea Burdekin Plum Carob Tree (Ceratonia siliqa) Cattle Bush Desert Cotton (Aerva javanica) Desert Oak Eremophila Wildberry Feijoa sellowiana Flannel Cudweed Fork-leaf Corkwood Ghost Gum Golden Everlasting Kurrajong Lemon-flowered Gum MacDonnell’s Desert Fuchsia Native Bluebell Native Tomato Needlewood Olive Tree Perennial Yellow Top Rat’s Tail River Red Gum Woolly Cloak-Fern (Cheilanthes lasiophylla) Inland River Red Gum Rosy Dock Round-leaved Mallee Scurvy Grass Silky Eremophila Stemodia viscosa Striped Mintbush Sturt’s Desert Pea Sturt’s Desert Rose Tangled Leschenaultia Tar Vine Weeping Bottlebrush White Cedar Yellow Billybutton Yellow-keeled Swainsona Yellow Oleander
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