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Common Nardoo

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Scientific Name:Marsilea drummondii

Other Common Name:
Dullum Dullum
Population of Common Nardoo
Population of Common Nardoo
Photo: A J Brown

Status:
Native to all mainland Australian States.

Plant Description:
A small aquatic or subaquatic fern. Creeping to form mats by means of rhizomes that are often densely hairy when young and sometimes woody when older. Fronds are solitary or in clusters at the nodes on stalks (stipes) 3-30 cm long. The grey-green leaflets have a superficial appearance to clover but are 4 in number and radiate from below their junction (rather than laterally), are 5-30 mm long, and densely hairy (except when growing in deep water).

Habitat:
Common throughout northern and western Victoria on wet mud flats, in swamps, water holes, depressions and ephemeral streams.

RegionSalinity ClassWaterlogging Class
Mallee, Loddon Murray, Central and Northern, Wimmera, WesternS0W3, W4

Comments:
One of four species of Nardoo in Victoria and the most common. Mainly distinguished from each by the shape and size of their leaflets.

Common Nardoo photos

Plants of Common Nardoo
Plants of Common Nardoo
Photo: A J Brown
Frond of Common Nardoo in bud
Frond of Common Nardoo
Photo: A J Brown

Unfolding frond of Common Nardoo
Unfolding frond of Common Nardoo
Photo: A J Brown

Leaflet of Common Nardoo
Leaflet of Common Nardoo
Photo: A J Brown
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