Scientific Name: Pilularia novae-hollandiae

Common Name: australian pillwort

Family Classification (Clade): Pteridophytes

Family: Marsileaceae

Threatened Species Status: Rare

Permit: It is an offence to collect, disturb, damage or destroy this species unless under permit.

Form Description: Tiny terrestrial fern forming mats. Rootstock threadlike; fronds simple, 2-7cm long, narrowly linear, coiled when young.

Height (m): 0.02 – 0.07

Municipality
Central HighlandsLauncestonNorthern Midlands
Plant Communities
Aquatic
Habitat Notes

Aquatic or semi-aquatic growing in the mud or silt of shallow and slow-moving rivers and on seasonally inundated margins of lakes and depressions. Establishes freely in man-made lakes.

Site Tolerance

Exposed, Waterlogged

Soil Tolerance

aquatic, Fertile, Loam, Poorly-drained

Frost Tolerance

Moderate

General Notes

Will grow as a bog plant or in a pot standing in water. Prefers a sunny position and tolerates light to moderate frost.

Propagation Calendar

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Propagation Method
Specialist Method

Seed Information

Seed Collection

Sori enclosed in a hard, globular sporocarp, short-stalked, arising from the rhizome.

Cutting & Division Information

Propagate by division.