Holly Fern at Coffs Harbour, NSW
Identification history
| Cyrtomium falcatum | 18 Sep 2025 | JasonPStewart | ||
| Cyrtomium falcatum | 18 Sep 2025 | Spud | ||
| Cyrtomium falcatum | 18 Sep 2025 | JasonPStewart | ||
| Unverified | 11 Apr 2025 | LyndalT |
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14 comments
Spud
wrote:
18 Sep 2025
would love to verify but plant name not available to the great unwashed. Sigh.
Spud
wrote:
18 Sep 2025
Thank you @JasonPStewartNMsnc2016
Interesting handle you have there.
Do you know how to get a plant name onto the list, there are several that I have come across that need adding.
Interesting handle you have there.
Do you know how to get a plant name onto the list, there are several that I have come across that need adding.
JasonPStewart
wrote:
18 Sep 2025
@Spud
Please try something, to yourself add the identification of: _Cyrtomium falcatum_
– with me assisting :
Please click:
• the category: Plants
• then the sub-category: Ferns and Clubmosses
Then in this region north-coast-NSW _Cyrtomium falcatum_ has not yet been sighted in NatureMapr so not in the local region north-coast-NSW list of ferns and clubmosses. As you mentioned .
• hence, then at that point please click the now available button labelled "? Can't find it",
This "? Can't find it" button opens the list to all Ferns and Clubmosses national wide ('global' list),
where we both can find this species name: _Cyrtomium falcatum_ .
.
Please try something, to yourself add the identification of: _Cyrtomium falcatum_
– with me assisting :
Please click:
• the category: Plants
• then the sub-category: Ferns and Clubmosses
Then in this region north-coast-NSW _Cyrtomium falcatum_ has not yet been sighted in NatureMapr so not in the local region north-coast-NSW list of ferns and clubmosses. As you mentioned .
• hence, then at that point please click the now available button labelled "? Can't find it",
This "? Can't find it" button opens the list to all Ferns and Clubmosses national wide ('global' list),
where we both can find this species name: _Cyrtomium falcatum_ .
.
JasonPStewart
wrote:
18 Sep 2025
@Spud – i am one of the moderators of identifications of plants across Au .
–mostly i moderate identifications of rainforest plants across eastern Au from here in NE Qld where i live now through eastern Qld and NSW to southern Vic. where i grew up and Tas..
I can assist with adding species and infra–species to NatureMapr's taxonomy listing .
–mostly i moderate identifications of rainforest plants across eastern Au from here in NE Qld where i live now through eastern Qld and NSW to southern Vic. where i grew up and Tas..
I can assist with adding species and infra–species to NatureMapr's taxonomy listing .
JasonPStewart
wrote:
18 Sep 2025
@Spud – do you run ultra-marathons and have family from Beech Forest (Vic.) ? (–just an old in joke attempted humour, from Vic., on your interesting user handle name too) .
Spud
wrote:
18 Sep 2025
Thank you @JasonPStewartNMsnc2016, I've been a member for a whole hour or so and already talking to a moderator, pretty cool.
Did as you said and that works. Many thanks.
For what it's worth I'm based in Mid North Coast NSW with a bit of a fetish for ferns.
Did as you said and that works. Many thanks.
For what it's worth I'm based in Mid North Coast NSW with a bit of a fetish for ferns.
JasonPStewart
wrote:
18 Sep 2025
If you have identification species name(s),
not yet anywhere in the NatureMapr taxonomy listing,
after clicking the relevant, category eg. Plants, and sub-category eg. Ferns and Clubmosses,
and then the button labelled "? Can't find it", – there searching through the whole NatureMapr taxa listing for that category – sub-category .
And searching throughout all the species or taxa in the whole of NatureMapr,
by typing the species or taxon name in the Quick search box on the top right hand corner of the whole web page .
If not finding the species or taxon name anywhere in NatureMapr (even in, rarely sometimes, wrongly categorised species or taxa names).
Then you may copy and paste or type a "New scientific name" for the NatureMapr taxonomy listing,
after clicking the button labelled "? Still can't find it",
and then click the button labelled "+ Suggest new species" .
From there, we moderators check the name and can add this species or taxon name new to NatureMapr from scholarly taxonomy sources eg. APC–APNI for Au plants, including with:
we add the information for that species or taxon of:
origin status, conservation status, invasiveness status or not, any meaningful common name(s),
and the references' citations of the scholarly taxonomy sources .
not yet anywhere in the NatureMapr taxonomy listing,
after clicking the relevant, category eg. Plants, and sub-category eg. Ferns and Clubmosses,
and then the button labelled "? Can't find it", – there searching through the whole NatureMapr taxa listing for that category – sub-category .
And searching throughout all the species or taxa in the whole of NatureMapr,
by typing the species or taxon name in the Quick search box on the top right hand corner of the whole web page .
If not finding the species or taxon name anywhere in NatureMapr (even in, rarely sometimes, wrongly categorised species or taxa names).
Then you may copy and paste or type a "New scientific name" for the NatureMapr taxonomy listing,
after clicking the button labelled "? Still can't find it",
and then click the button labelled "+ Suggest new species" .
From there, we moderators check the name and can add this species or taxon name new to NatureMapr from scholarly taxonomy sources eg. APC–APNI for Au plants, including with:
we add the information for that species or taxon of:
origin status, conservation status, invasiveness status or not, any meaningful common name(s),
and the references' citations of the scholarly taxonomy sources .
JasonPStewart
wrote:
18 Sep 2025
@Spud hence thank you for your much appreciated identifications this evening !
Please feel free to contact me by private message(s) as well, here in NatureMapr.
Please feel free to introduce yourself in your account profile bio.
Please let us know your experience, eg. with ferns and if you have the experience and motivation for moderating identifications eg. of ferns, here in NatureMapr.
Please feel free to add sightings of your own.
Please keep up the good work.
Good evening from me ! – Jason Stewart – while multi-tasking, by doing both: working here and watching the awesome athletics world championships including awesome Gout Gout ! and Torrie Lewis ! both doing so well for 17 yo and 21 yo respectively.
Please feel free to contact me by private message(s) as well, here in NatureMapr.
Please feel free to introduce yourself in your account profile bio.
Please let us know your experience, eg. with ferns and if you have the experience and motivation for moderating identifications eg. of ferns, here in NatureMapr.
Please feel free to add sightings of your own.
Please keep up the good work.
Good evening from me ! – Jason Stewart – while multi-tasking, by doing both: working here and watching the awesome athletics world championships including awesome Gout Gout ! and Torrie Lewis ! both doing so well for 17 yo and 21 yo respectively.
Spud
wrote:
23 Sep 2025
Hi @LyndalT,
Well this is really turning out to be the friendly app! @JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 has been awesome in getting me started in doing identifications but... I don't share his enthusiasm for athletic carnivals. He he... But come October when I'm watching cars go round and round at Bathurst he may well be slapping his palm against his forehead and saying 'Why Oh Why?'
Que sera sera.
Well this is really turning out to be the friendly app! @JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 has been awesome in getting me started in doing identifications but... I don't share his enthusiasm for athletic carnivals. He he... But come October when I'm watching cars go round and round at Bathurst he may well be slapping his palm against his forehead and saying 'Why Oh Why?'
Que sera sera.
JasonPStewart
wrote:
25 Sep 2025
Laughing !
Been a long time, near 4 decades, since I went with a friend who’s Dad worked designing cars in then GMH,
to the all day long ‘muscle’ cars race in NW of Melb’s Calder Raceway.
Have watched on TV a few times the Bathurst cars’ races.
I don’t know many or perhaps any more petrol head people who share a love for ferns though!
Yeah really fit, healthy and glowing shalom wellness, people and more living things,
over fit machines,
‘I do confess I do prefer’ and i’m proud of this love of shalom whole health !
LOLOL.
Been a long time, near 4 decades, since I went with a friend who’s Dad worked designing cars in then GMH,
to the all day long ‘muscle’ cars race in NW of Melb’s Calder Raceway.
Have watched on TV a few times the Bathurst cars’ races.
I don’t know many or perhaps any more petrol head people who share a love for ferns though!
Yeah really fit, healthy and glowing shalom wellness, people and more living things,
over fit machines,
‘I do confess I do prefer’ and i’m proud of this love of shalom whole health !
LOLOL.
Location information
- Coordinates 153.146252-30.302781
- Altitude 38.8m
- Places Coffs Harbour, NSW
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 11 Apr 2025 09:49 AM Recorded on
- LyndalT Recorded by
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Collections
LyndalT NatureMapr New South Wales North Coast Ferns and Clubmosses Plants Cyrtomium falcatum
Additional information
- 30cm to 1 metre Plant height
Species information
- Cyrtomium falcatum Scientific name
- Holly Fern Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Medium weed or pest
- Up to 682.81m Recorded at altitude
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
- Description
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