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Adiantum aethiopicum (Common Maidenhair)
Spreading low-growing fern with delicate bipinnate to tripinnate fronds. Reaches 10-45cm high. Can be found in fairly dry conditions, becoming dormant during warm, dry spells.
Asplenium flabellifolium (Necklace Fern)
Small fern with weak fronds which are often prostrate. Can produce rooted plantlets at the tip of the frond which are often pinnule-free for a considerable length. Pinnae are fan-shaped with toothed margins, turning a darker green with age. Found on moist, rocky ground, sheltered by rock crevices and grasses.
Spore-bearing bodies are found underneath each fertile pinnule. The location of spore bodies differentiates this fern from Lindsaea linearis (Screw Fern).
Blechnum cartilagineum (Gristle Fern)
Upright tufting fern forming spreading patches; 0.5-1.5m in height. Leathery pinnate fronds with pinnae longest towards the base of the frond. Pinnae changes direction from the base to the tip of the frond.
Blechnum nudum (Fishbone Water-fern)
Individual plants form an erect, rounded clump 0.5-1.2m in height. Old plants have a small black fibrous trunk. Pinnae are held at right angles to the rachis throughout the length of the frond except near the tip.
Blechnum wattsii (Hard Water-fern)
A strongly growing, spreading fern with underground rhizomes. The pinnate fronds are leathery and dark green, with young fronds having a reddish to bronze colour. The pinnae are slightly serrated.
Found in moist, shady areas, often seasonally wet. Can form colonies.
Calochlaena dubia (False Bracken)
Coarse, open spreading fern reaching a height of 2m. Large broadly triangular yellow-green 3-4 pinnate leaves. Usually found in the moist areas around Chandlers Hill.
Can be distinguished from the common Pteridium esculentum (Austral Bracken) by its softer fronds and hairs on the main rib of the leaf.
Cheilanthes austrotenuifolia (Rockfern)
Dwarf fern forming open clumps, 20-50cm high. Fronds erect, bipinnate to tripinnate, bright green to 30cm long.
This is a surprisingly tough fern, found mostly around rocky crevices, which provide shelter for its roots.
Cyathea australis (Rough Tree-fern)
Large tree fern 3-15m high with fibrous trunk and dark green tripinnate leaves.
This tree fern can be distinguished from Dicksonia antarctica (Soft Tree Fern) by the hard, pointed projections found at the base of the fronds.
Dicksonia antarctica (Soft Tree-fern)
This is an attractive tree fern which can grow to 15m tall. It is usually found near creeks and in damp gullies under filtered sunlight, although it can sometimes withstand drier conditions.
Lindsaea linearis (Screw Fern)
Small erect fern with pale green fronds 5-20cm long. Pinna are paired, spaced closely along the rachis, and fan-shaped to 10mm long. Pinnule usually wider than it is long. Fertile fronds are narrower and longer. Can be found growing among other plants off Hansens Track.
Sterile fronds are non-spore forming fronds. The pinnae ("leaves") have a rounded fan shape.
Fertile fronds show bulging spore-forming bodies along the outer edges of the pinnae. The pinnae are more triangular in shape.
Microsorum pustulatum ssp. pustulatum (Kangaroo Fern)
Rock-dwelling or epiphytic fern with creeping or climbing rhizome 3-7mm thick. Fronds widely separated, variable in shape and size, 5-50cm long. Frond lobe margins wavy.
Can be found on the southern slopes of Chandlers Hill near its summit growing among rocks.
Pellaea falcata (Sickle Fern)
Small fern with erect, leathery, dark green and shiny fronds 20-75cm long. Pinna 2-6cm long, 2-13mm wide. Rachis dark brown and densely covered with short hairs.
Usually found around rocks. A few can be seen on the southern slopes of Chandlers Hill near the summit.
Polystichum proliferum (Mother Shield-fern)
Tufted fern with long arching bipinnate fronds, 0.8-1.4m. Young fronds are bright light green becoming dark green as they mature.
Pteridium esculentum (Austral Bracken)
Single erect frond up to 1.5m high. Fronds are 3-4 pinnate, dark green and leathery.
This fern is poisonous to stock animals. Can be found all over Chandlers Hill.
Can be distinguished from Calochlaena dubia (False Bracken) by its darker green fronds which feel more leathery.
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