Scientific Name: Isoetes muelleri

Common Name: common quillwort

Family Classification (Clade): Pteridophytes

Family: Isoetaceae

Form Description: Aquatic fern ally.

Municipality
Break O’DayCentral HighlandsLauncestonNorthern Midlands
Plant Communities
Alpine and Sub-alpine Vegetation
Habitat Notes

Locally abundant in lowland rivers and highland lakes and are fully submerged for most of the year but commonly exposed with low water levels in summer. Deeper running waters of the lowlands support larger plants while masses of dwarfed plants occur in some natural or man-made waters.

Site Tolerance

Waterlogged

Soil Tolerance

aquatic

General Notes

Appears to be the hardiest member of the genus in Tasmania. Morphologically very diverse and has been found growing with all other named Isoetes species in Tasmania as well as with the uncommon aquatic fern Pilularia novae-hollandiae.

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Propagation Method
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Seed Information

Seed Collection

Spores contained in sporophylls clustered into a bulbous base.