Links to Ferns and their allies

Try the links below for a range of information about ferns and their allies. Please inform the maintainer of this list if any of the links do not work or have changed their location. We would also appreciate learning of any new fern or fern ally or related sites that you think should be included in this list.

Pteridophyte information

• A brief Introduction to Ferns - American Fern Society
• An Introduction to Ferns - British Pteridiological Society
• A Leaf from the Herbarium - Isoetes - Grahamstown, South Africa
• The fern pages - Australian National Herbarium
• Pteridophytes - the ferns and their allies - Australian National Herbarium
• A classification of the ferns and fern allies - Australian National Herbarium
• Images of Australian ferns and fern allies - Australian National Herbarium
• Classification of the Ferns and Fern Allies - John A. Knouse
• Phylogeny, character evolution and diversification of extant ferns
• Tree of Life

  • Filicopsida - Ferns
  • Leptosporangiate ferns
• Introduction to the structure of ferns and fern allies - Australian National Herbarium
• Reproduction and life cycle of ferns and their allies - Australian National Herbarium
• The Fern Pages - Australian National Herbarium
• Glossary: Ferns, Gymnosperms and Allied Groups - Flora of Australia
• Land Plant Online - Southern Illinois University

  • Lycophyta
  • Sphenophyta
  • Psilophyta
  • Pterophyta

Regional Information

Australia

• Recent name changes in Australian pteridophytes - Jim Croft
• Ferns of the Canberra Region - Australia - David Nicholls
• Ferns of the Canberra Region - Australia - David Nicholls
• Pteridophytes of Conservation signifcance in Australia - Jim Croft
• Conservation Status of Norfolk Island Ferns - John Braggins
• Keys to the fern families of Australia
• ANBG Public Reference Herbarium fern project

  • Checklist of ferns and fern allies of the ACT and south coast NSW
• Checklist of ferns and fern allies of Norfolk Island
• Checklist of ferns and fern allies of Christmas Island
• Checklist of ferns and fern allies of Macquarie Island
• Rare or Threatened Tasmanian Ferns
• Introducing Australian Ferns (SGAP)
• Native Ferns of Cool Climates - Australian National Botanic Gardens

India

 

ilmy Ferns of South India

 

New Guinea / Pacific
 

• Keys to the fern families of Papuasia

  • Keys to the fern genera of Papuasia
• The Aquatic Pteridophytes of New Guinea - Jim Croft
• Ferns and Man in New Guinea - Jim Croft
• Alien Ferns in Hawaii - Kenneth A. Wilson
• Hawaiian Native Plants - photos
• Tree ferns in Hawaii - Art Smith
• New Zealand Plants - Matt von Konrat

  • Ferns and fern allies
  • True Ferns
  • Fern Allies

  North America  

• Ferns: Of Fern Forest and South Florida
• Pteridophytes of North America, introduction - Warren H. Wagner, Alan R. Smith
• Flora of North America - Pteridophytes
• Atlas of the flor of New England - Pteridophytes and gymnosperms
• Flora of the Carolinas and Virginia (artificial key to ferns) - Alan S. Weakley Flora of the Cayuga Lake Basin - ferns and fern allies
• Ferns and fern allies from a working index of New Mexico vascular plant names
• Vascular Flora of Arkansas - Pteridophytes: checklist and atlas; database
• Flora of Roosevelt Monmouth Co., New Jersey
• Checklist of native and introduced, naturally persisting vascular plant taxa of the Chignecto Region of Southeastern New Brunswick
• Hardy Ferns Around DC - USA
• Oregon Ferns (with illustrated key) - USA
• Assessment of species diversity in the Mixedwood Plains Ecozone - Pteridophytes - USA

  Europe

• British Fern Species - Robert Hutchinson
  
   

Clubs and Societies

• Amercan Fern Society
• Los Angeles International Fern Society - USA
• British Pteridological Society - Fern World Wide Web
• San Diego Fern Society - USA
• Southwestern Fern Society - Texas, USA
• The Fern Society of Victoria - Australia
• South Australian Fern Society - Australia
• The Hardy Fern Foundation - USA
• Fern Society of South Africa