Rock Felt Fern at Copmanhurst, NSW
Identification history
| Pyrrosia rupestris | 11 Mar 2025 | Tapirlord | ||
| Unverified | 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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Location information
- Places Copmanhurst, NSW
Sighting information
- 2 Abundance
- MazzV Recorded by
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MazzV NatureMapr New South Wales North Coast Ferns and Clubmosses Plants
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
- 77 images trained Machine learning
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Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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