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tasmanian ferns and allies - blue tier
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This is a partial list of ferns to be found on the Blue Tier. We have also provided a page of fern thumbnails (180kB).
FILICOPSIDA
- ASPLENIACEAE
- Asplenium bulbiferum - mother spleenwort
- Asplenium flabellifolium - necklace fern
- Asplenium appendiculatum ssp. appendiculatum - narrow spleenwort
- ATHYRIACEAE
- Diplazium australe - austral lady-fern
- BLECHNACEAE
- Blechnum fluviatile - ray waterfern
- Blechnum minus - soft waterfern
- Blechnum nudum - fishbone waterfern
- Blechnum penna-marina - alpine waterfern
- Blechnum wattsii - hard water fern
- CYATHEACAE
- Cyathea australis - rough treefern
- DENNSTADTIACEAE
- Histiopteris incisa - batswing fern
- Hypolepis rugosula - ruddy groundfern
- Pteridium esculentum - bracken fern
- DICKSONIACEAE
- Dicksonia antarctica - manfern
- DRYOPTERIDACEAE
- Polystichum proliferum - mother shield fern
- Rumohra adiantiformis - leathery shieldfern
- GLEICHENIACEAE
- Gleichenia alpina - alpine coralfern
- Gleichenia dicarpa - pouched coralfern
- Gleichenia microphylla - scrambling coralfern
- Sticherus tener - silky fanfern
- Sticherus urceolatus - umbrella fanfern; this was only described in 1998; more
- GRAMMITIDACEAE
- Ctenopteris heterophylla - gypsy fern
- Grammitis billardieri - common fingerfern
- Grammitis magellanica nothofageti - beech fingerfern
- HYMENOPHYLLACEAE
- Crepidomanes venosum (Syn. Polyphlebium venosum) - bristle filmyfern
- Hymenophyllum australe - southern filmyfern
- Hymenophyllum cupressiforme - common filmyfern
- Hymenophyllum flabellatum - shiny filmyfern
- Hymenophyllum peltatum - alpine filmyfern
- Hymenophyllum rarum - narrow filmyfern
- OSMUNDACEAE
- Todea barbara - southern kingfern; pinna comparison
- POLYPODIACEAE
- Microsorum pustulatus - kangaroo fern
- PTERIDACEAE
- Pteris tremula - netted brake
Literature:
review
of Michael Garrett, The Ferns of Tasmania, Tasmanian
Forest Research Council, Hobart, Tasmania. 1996