Scientific Name: Isoetes gunnii Endemic Having a natural distribution confined to a particular geographic region
Common Name: stout quillwort
Family Classification (Clade): Pteridophytes
Family: Isoetaceae
Form Description: Tall stout aquatic fern ally; which forms a tussock of hollow leaves, undivided and circular in cross-section; rootstock 3-lobed.
Height (m): 0.03 – 0.38
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Habitat Notes
Common and widespread in highland tarns, natural lakes and rivers at a variety of elevations. Plants which occur in rocky or gravelly substrate in flowing water or shallow margins of lakes may form clumps only a few centimetres in height. At greater depths, in mud, leaves may reach 38cm.
Site Tolerance
Rocky, Waterlogged
Soil Tolerance
aquatic
General Notes
Plants can be transplanted fairly readily and will grow in a submerged pot of soil topped with gravel. Can be grown as an aquarium plant in cold water. Propagation techniques are unknown.
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Propagation Method
Seed Information
Seed Collection
Spores contained in sporophylls clustered into a bulbous base.