Ferns: POLYPODIOPHYTA in Australia

Flower Families

Don Herbison-Evans, (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Christine Ashe

Plant Classes

Adiantum aethiopicum Maidenhair Fern Upper Beaconsfield, Victoria Photo: courtesy of Laura Levens	Asplenium australasicum Birds-nest Fern Sydney, August 2006	Asplenium flabellifolium Necklace Fern Upper Beaconsfield, Victoria Photo: courtesy of Laura Levens	Azolla pinnata Feathered Mosquito Fern Wyee, December 2006
Blechnum Silver Fern Sydney, December 2008	Cheilanthes austrotenuifolia Rock Fern Upper Beaconsfield, Victoria Photo: courtesy of Laura Levens	Cheilanthes lasiophylla Woolly Cloak Fern Broken Hill Photo: courtesy of Laura Levens	Cyathea australis Rough Tree Fern Sydney, September 2006
Dicksonia antarctica Soft Tree Fern Sydney, August 2006	Histiopteris incisa Bat's Wing Fern Fraser Coast, Queensland Photo: courtesy of Scott Gavins	Hypolepis rugosula Ruddy Ground-fern Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald	Lindsaya linearis Screw Fern Upper Beaconsfield, Victoria Photo: courtesy of Laura Levens
Lygodium microphyllum Aussie Climbing Fern Fraser Coast, Queensland Photo: courtesy of Scott Gavins	Marsilea drummondii Nardoo Uluru, December 2008	Nephrolepis bostoniensis Boston Fern Sydney, August 2006	Platycerium bifurcatum Staghorn Sydney, October 2006
Polypodium species Polypody Sydney, August 2006	Pteridium esculentum Bracken Fraser Coast, Queensland Photo: courtesy of Scott Gavins	Pteris tremula Shaking Brake Sydney, October 2008	Salvinia molesta Salvinia Sydney, October 2006

Metrocampa ada	Idiodes apicata	Metrocampa biplaga	Planolocha obliquata	Idiodes siculoides	Hemichloreis exoterica	Chaetolopha decipiens
Chaetolopha emporias	Chaetolopha leucophragma	Chaetolopha niphosticha	Chaetolopha oxyntis	Chaetolopha pseudooxyntis	Teia anartoides	Cryptoptila immersana

Austromusotima camptozonale

Musotima nitidalis

Musotima ochropteralis

Herpetogramma platycapna

Samea multiplicalis

Perimeceta incrustalis

Calicotis crucifera

Callopistria maillardi

Data aroa

Spodoptera litura

Neumichtis saliaris

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 31 March 2013, 29 November 2025)