Dicksonia antarctica Labill.

Soft Tree Fern

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Name source
Australian Plant Census
Rank
species
Data links
LSID
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Life Science Identifier (LSID):

urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:apni.taxon:309643

LSIDs are persistent, location-independent,resource identifiers for uniquely naming biologically significant resources including species names, concepts, occurrences, genes or proteins, or data objects that encode information about them. To put it simply, LSIDs are a way to identify and locate pieces of biological information on the web.

Data Links

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WMS

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http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/ogc/ows?q=species:Dicksonia antarctica
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Species presence

 Recorded In Australia
 Terrestrial Habitats

Conservation status

SAExtinct or Endangered

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    Source: Australian Plant Image Index
    Image by: Fagg, M.

Description

Trunk 1–15 m tall, sometimes massive, brown, densely covered in matted brown aerial roots; stipe bases persistent towards the crown; base of stipes and trunk apex densely covered with glossy ginger-brown hairs to 4.5 cm long. Fronds numerous in a large spreading crown. Stipe to 30 cm long, stout, smooth or slightly verrucose, hairy. Lamina 3-pinnate, oblong-lanceolate, 2–4 m long, dark green and shiny above, paler beneath, coriaceous, somewhat harsh; central pinnae longest, c. 30–40 cm long, reduced to each end; basal pinnae c. 10 cm long; ultimate segments decurrent along rachis; lobes of fertile pinnae cut to c. half-way to the midrib; rachis pale, hairy. Sori 0.8–1.3 mm diam., solitary on each lobe. source: ABRS Flora of Australia Online

Online resources

Species Lists

Australian iconic species
state listed spp (non EPBC)
Testing – Mr. Stewart’s familiar listing

Names and sources

Accepted name Source
Dicksonia antarctica

Synonyms

Synonyms Source
Cibotium billardierei Kaulf.
Published in: Kaulfuss, G.F. 1824, Enumeratio Filicum
Cibotium billardieri orth. var. Kaulf.
Published in: Kaulfuss, G.F. 1824, Enumeratio Filicum
Balantium antarcticum (Labill.) C.Presl
Published in: Presl, C.B [K.B.] 1836, Tentamen Pteridographiae
Dicksonia lanata Colenso
Published in: Bailey, F.M. 1878, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 3
Dicksonia billardierei (Kaulf.) F.Muell.
Published in: Mueller, F.J.H. von 1882, Systematic Census of Australian Plants
Dicksonia billardieri orth. var. (Kaulf.) F.Muell.
Published in: Mueller, F.J.H. von 1882, Systematic Census of Australian Plants
Dicksonia lanata Colenso
Published in: Colenso, W. 1844, A Classification and description of some newly discovered ferns, collected in the northern island of New Zealand, in the summer of 1841-42. Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science, Agriculture, Statistics, etc 2(8) 161-170

Common Names

Common name Source
Soft Tree Fern
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Soft Tree-fern
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The Common Tree Fern
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Tree Fern
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Woolly Fern-tree
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Working classification

kingdom
Plantae
phylum
Charophyta
class
Equisetopsida
subclass
Polypodiidae
order
Cyatheales
family
Dicksoniaceae
genus
Dicksonia
species
Dicksonia antarctica  Recorded in Australia

Occurrence records

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Record maps from other sources

3rd party distribution map
Source: Plant NET Flora Online

Name references found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library

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