| Spreading Fan Fern | |
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| Spreading Fan Fern at Mount Budawang, Australia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Pteridophyta |
| Class: | Pteridopsida |
| Order: | Gleicheniales |
| Family: | Gleicheniaceae |
| Genus: | Sticherus |
| Species: | S. lobatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Sticherus lobatus N.A.Wakef. |
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| Synonyms | |
Sticherus lobatus, known as the Spreading Fan Fern is a small fern found in eastern and southern Australia. A common and attractive plant, similar to Sticherus flabellatus but with additional lobed segments.[1] Often forming colonies in open forest or on the edges of rainforest.[2]