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Gheeseman (Man. 1018) äussert sich über diese Form folgendermassen : »G. pafms is an excessively 
proliferous state with slender almost subscandent stems, forming large masses in heated soil near hot 
springs at Taupo. The fronds are more membranous than usual, but that and its other peculiarities are 
easily accounted for by the exceptional nature of its habitat. « 
Fig. 48. Platyeerium bifureatum C. Christens, var. laneifepum Dom. Nacli einem E.xeniplaie von Vanaba. (Stark verkl."! 
236. G. dicarpa R. Br. Prodr. 161 (1810), Hook.-Bak. Syn. Fil. 12 excl. var. (1874). F. v. Muell. 
Fragm. V. 115, 187 (1866), Sec. Gens. 230 (1889), Luerss. Journ. Mus. Godeffr. 111. 3 (1873). Benth. Fl. 
Austr. VII. 698 (1878), F. M. Bail. Handb. Ferns Queensl. 58 fig. 51 (1874), Fern World Austr. 25 (1883), 
Syn. Queensl. FI. 684 (1883), Gatal. Plants Queensl. 58 (1890), Lithogr. Ferns Queensl. tab. 15 (1892), 
Queensl. FL VI. 1938 (1902), in Meston Exped. Bell.-Ker, Parliam. Rep. 17 (1904), French South. Sei. 
Ree. I. 17 (1881), G. Moore Handb. Fl. N. S.Wales 504 (1893), Ghhist Farnkr. d. Erd. 338 (^1897). Dikls 
