Today's field trip took us to the Hottentots region of South Africa, with many more exciting fern sightings. We saw lots of new taxa that we hadn't seen before, including an
Elaphoglossum and a cool
Asplenium. It was rather a grey day but that didn't dim our enthusiasm for fern finding...
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| Asplenium aethiopicum |
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| Blechnum capense |
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| Elaphoglossum acrostichoides |
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| Elaphoglossum acrostichoides sori closeup |
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| Hymenophyllum capense |
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| Hymenophyllum tunbrigense, a bit different looking than H. capense |
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| Hymenophyllum tunbrigense sori |
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| Rumohra adiantiformis |
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| A damp little swale with a stream, where we found most of these ferns |
And as at
Table Mountain, a highlight of this trip was finding
Schizaea - this time, a different species!
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| Schizaea pectinata |
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| Schizaea pectinata |
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