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Gleichenia dicarpa (Gleicheniaceae)

Gleichenia dicarpa (pouched coral fern) is a common native groundfern that grows in wet heaths, including button grass plains. It has the typical Gleichenia foliage, which is repeatedly dichotomously divided before ending in pinnate laminas. The distinctive feature is that the sori are in deep pouches, but lack dense covering of hairs on the underside found in G. alpina.
 

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