Angiopteris evecta
Giant Fern at Mission Beach, QLD
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| Angiopteris evecta | 18 Sep 2025 | JasonPStewart | ||
| Dicksonia antarctica | 18 Sep 2025 | CarbonAI | ||
| Angiopteris evecta | 18 Sep 2025 | Spud | ||
| Angiopteris evecta | 21 Jul 2025 | JasonPStewart | ||
| Unverified | 20 Jul 2025 | Clarel |
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User's notes
I was keeping an eye out for king fern after seeing it planted in gardens. This is an urban path but it didn’t seem to be a garden. Angiopteris evecta? Wasn’t as vigorous as the ones I saw in gardens.
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JasonPStewart
wrote:
21 Jul 2025
Looks like it;
and not _Ptisana oreades_ (basionym: _Marattia oreades_).
and not _Ptisana oreades_ (basionym: _Marattia oreades_).
Location information
- Places Mission Beach, QLD
Sighting information
- 5 Abundance
- Clarel Recorded by
- 1 metre to 5 metres Plant height
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Species information
- Angiopteris evecta Scientific name
- Giant Fern Common name
- Sensitive
- Endangered *
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 4.11m Recorded at altitude
Record quality
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6 / 7
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