Pyrrosia rupestris

Rock Felt Fern at Copmanhurst, NSW

Pyrrosia rupestris at Copmanhurst, NSW - suppressed
Pyrrosia rupestris at Copmanhurst, NSW - suppressed
Pyrrosia rupestris at Copmanhurst, NSW - suppressed
Pyrrosia rupestris at Copmanhurst, NSW - suppressed
Pyrrosia rupestris at Copmanhurst, NSW - suppressed
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Identification history

Pyrrosia rupestris 11 Mar 2025 Tapirlord
Unidentified 4 Mar 2025 MazzV

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Is this a running fern? Is it some other type of running plant? I haven’t seen anything like this ~ the hairy stems are suggestive of a fern, but the smooth thick leaves are more suggestive of a succulent! And the overall structure is suggestive of a vine! This running plant is yet another life form which colonized an old shade cloth canopy. Particularly the 2nd photo gives a small sense of the variety of life forms that have, as well as illustrating the lattice-like running pattern of this particular plant. The 4th photo shows another similar plant with yellower leaves. (The plant in the earlier photos, the subject of this sighting, can be seen in the bottom LH corner of the 4th photo) The last photo shows a plant which, if it is the same sp, is probably how it looks when first starting out. (The canopy collapsed a few years ago and a substantial amount of leaf litter has accumulated in the depression formed in the top, with several ferns & other plants colonizing the underside).

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Additional information

  • 10cm to 30cm Plant height

Species information

  • Pyrrosia rupestris Scientific name
  • Rock Felt Fern Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 1230.44m Recorded at altitude
  • 76 images trained Machine learning
  • In flower
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