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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.
LYCOPSIDA
- LYCOPODIACEAE
- Huperzia varia - long clubmoss
- Lycopodiella lateralis - slender clubmoss
- Lycopodium deuterodensum - conifer clubmoss
- Lycopodium fastigatum - mountain clubmoss
- Lycopodium scariosum - spreading clubmoss
PSILOTOPSIDA
- PSILOTACEAE
- Tmesipteris obliqua - fork fern
FILICOPSIDA
- ASPLENIACEAE
- Asplenium bulbiferum - mother spleenwort
- Asplenium flabellifolium - necklace fern
- Asplenium terrestre - ground spleenwort (id unconfirmed)
- ATHYRIACEAE
- Diplazium australe - austral lady-fern
- BLECHNACEAE
- Blechnum fluviatile - ray waterfern
- Blechnum minus - soft waterfern
- Blechnum nudum - fishbone waterfern
- Blechnum penna-marina - alpine waterfern (id unconfirmed)
- 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 (id unconfirmed)
- Gleichenia dicarpa - pouched coralfern
- Gleichenia microphylla - scrambling coralfern (id unconfirmed)
- 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 - bristle filmyfern
- Hymenophyllum australe - southern filmyfern
- Hymenophyllum cupressiforme - common filmyfern
- Hymenophyllum flabellatum - shiny filmyfern
- Hymenophyllum peltatum - alpine filmyfern
- Hymenophyllum rarum - narrow filmyfern
- Hymenophyllum sp.
- 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