#pellaea

[drhoz]

#2242 - Pellaea rotundifolia - Button Fern

From the Greek word πελλος (pellos), meaning "dark," and refers to the brown stems, and the Latin rotundifolia means "round-leaved". The genus are usually refered to as cliffbrakes, growing in rocky habitats, including moist rocky canyons, slopes, and bluffs.

New Zealand, but now also growing in Australia. Quite a popular garden plant, prefering drier soil than most ferns. Compact, with fronds up to 460mm long,

Huka Falls, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

[cedar-glade]

Two fun species from fern rock in Adams county. 

Cystopteris bulbifera

and one really long 

Pellaea atropurpurea

[cedar-glade]

Pellaea atropurpurea and Pellaea glabella

cliff break time!

Both grow on this rock in quite an abundance at lynx prairie. It’s much easier to tell the difference in the summer when one has a purple black stem( rachis) caused by the fine hairs, these hairs themselves are not purple but make the stem(which is black) appear a bit purple. Their are also hairs on the abaxial surface of purple cliff break’s pinnae where smooth is all together lacking. 

So its very hard to tell the difference between the two this time of year.

So yeah, smooth rachis vs sparcly pubescent rachis. 

[cedar-glade]

The motherload

Near a blue cove, at the terminal end of the blue hole of the head waters of the Little Miami River is 3 steam boats with one hell of a population of smooth cliff brake fern, Pellaea glabella.

[cedar-glade]

Pellaea glabella

Smooth cliff brake fern

I ended up finding the motherload of smooth cliff brake populations the other day on a nice sheltered steam boat. I had never seen so many in one place before. Although this species isn’t state threatened, it feels just as rare as wall-rue and other ferns that share similar habitat. 

[cedar-glade]

Pellaea glabella, in situ on a cliff next to the steep cut ravine connecting with the headwaters of the Little Miami.

[phytophiliac]

Pellaea rotundifolia is commonly called the button fern and is native to New Zealand. This the underside of the frond showing the spore producing sori.

[noravillegreen]

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