FERNS

POLYPODIOPHYTA in Australia

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

(updated 15 May 2010)

Flowers in Australia

Adiantum aethiopicum Maidenhair Fern Upper Beaconsfield, Victoria Photo: courtesy of the Laura Levens	Asplenium australasicum Birds-nest Fern Sydney, August 2006	Asplenium flabellifolium Necklace Fern Upper Beaconsfield, Victoria Photo: courtesy of the 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 the Laura Levens	Cheilanthes lasiophylla Woolly Cloak Fern Broken Hill Photo: courtesy of the Laura Levens	Cyathea australis Rough Tree Fern Sydney, September 2006
Dicksonia antarctica Soft Tree Fern Sydney, August 2006	Lindsaya linearis Screw Fern Upper Beaconsfield, Victoria Photo: courtesy of the Laura Levens	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 Sydney, August 2006	Pteris tremula Shaking Brake Sydney, October 2008
Salvinia molesta Salvinia Sydney, October 2006	Fern 01 Sydney, August 2006	Fern 03 Sydney, August 2006	Climbing Fern Sydney, August 2006

Australian species of Butterflies and Moths that have caterpillars that feed on Ferns include:

Hypochrysops hippuris	Hypochrysops theon	Callopistria maillardi	Idiodes apicata	Metrocampa ada	Metrocampa biplaga
Teia anartoides	Cataclysta camptozonale	Samea multiplicalis	Epiphyas postvittana	Musotima ochropteralis	Musotima nitidalis
Chaetolopha pseudooxyntis	Chaetolopha decipiens	Chaetolopha emporias	Chaetolopha leucophragma	Chaetolopha niphosticha	Chaetolopha oxyntis

Cryptoptila immersana ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Australian butterflies Plant Classes Australian moths