Doodia caudata

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information

Wikipedia links:       Monilophytes > Polypodiales > Blechnaceae > Doodia  caudata

Other links:     https://apps.lucidcentral.org/ferns/text/entities/doodia_caudata.htm

Species:     D aspera   D caudata   D media       

Plant  information

Common name:         Small Rasp Fern  

Conservation status: ...

Etymology:   

• Named after Samuel Doody (1656-1706), an English botanist

Spores:                            

• Sori 0.8–10 mm or more long, 0.8–1.5 mm wide, usually laterally confluent when mature, always confluent across pinna midvein

• One row of several indusia or 1 unbroken indusium on each side of pinna midvein, nearer to midvein than margin

Leaves:         

• Stipe without tubercles

• Fronds dimorphic. 

• Fertile lamina pinnate, 5.7–46 cm long, 0.5–18 cm wide; apical lobe (one-third–) one-sixth to one-ninth of lamina length

• Pinnae simple, stalked in basal third of lamina, stalked to partly adnate to decurrent in middle third, partly adnate to decurrent in distal third; longest pinnae 2–110 mm long, 1–4 mm wide; rachis and pinna midvein without tubercles

Stem & branches: 

• Rhizome erect, to 10 cm tall, or short- to long-creeping

Roots:         

Habit:        

Habitat:   

• Terrestrial on banks and creeks in rainforest and wet sclerophyll forest

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to E Australia between Hann Tableland in NE QLD and East Gippsland in Vic

• Also in Tasmania and Lord Howe Island

• In NE QLD it is usually found on the western tableland regions

Additional notes:     

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doodia_caudata (2023)