Schizaea bifida: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Polypodiopsida
- Order
- Schizaeales
- Family
- Schizaeaceae
- Genus
- Schizaea
- Species
- Schizaea bifida
- Scientific Name
- Schizaea bifida
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Schizaea bifida
Schizaea bifida, better known as the forked comb fern is a fairly common fern found in eastern and southern Australia. Also seen in New Zealand and New Caledonia. In New South Wales it is found near the coast in heathland and eucalyptus woodland. Seen as a low plant, 10 to 35 cm tall. The generic name Schizaea is from the Greek, meaning “to cleave or split”. Bifida means split in two.
This plant first appeared in scientific literature in the year 1802, published by the German botanist, Carl Ludwig Willdenow.
...Schizaea bifida in languages:
- English
- Forked Comb Fern
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Schizaea australis
- Schizaea bifida
- Schizaea dichotoma
- Schizaea elegans
- Schizaea fistulosa
- Schizaea fluminensis
- Schizaea incurvata
- Schizaea malaccana
- Schizaea montis-petrae
- Schizaea pectinata
- Schizaea poeppigiana
- Schizaea pseudodichotoma
- Schizaea pusilla
- Schizaea rhacoindusiata
- Schizaea robusta
- Schizaea rupestris
- Schizaea sprucei
- Schizaea stricta
- Schizaea tenella
- Schizaea × diversispora































































































































































