Long Grass Nature Refuge
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Widespread fern with long-creeping rhizome, with numerous erect or semi-erect fronds to 35cm. Most instances of this fern in the region were previously known as A. aethiopicum. Fronds mostly 20-50 cm high, 2-4-pinnate, stalks of the ultimate segments attached at the centre of their bases so that segments +/- symmetric at base; segments 3-8 mm long, membranous, pale green, outer margin lobed or finely toothed; stipe reddish brown to dark brown to very dark red-brown. Sterile fronds spreading. Fertile fronds erect with smaller pinnules; sori large, reniform, usually 1-5 per segment.
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