Pteridophytes: Links to the Ferns and their Allies

Pteridophyte Information

Regional Information

Clubs and Societies

Databases of Pteridophytes

Other Databases

Miscellaneous

Useful Tools

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
• Introduction to the Sphenopyta - Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley
• Pteridophytes (ferns and allies): an Overview - Hugh Wilson, TAMU
• Pteridophytes: Ferns and Fern Allies - John A. Knouse
• Non-flowering Plant Families - G.D. Carr, University of Hawaii
• The Azolla Page
• The Isoetes Page
• Evolution and taxonomy of bracken ferns
• The Plant Kingdom (Univ. West Indies): Introduction to the Pteridophytes
• Ferns
• Fern Allies
• The Plant Kingdom - Natural Perspective
  • Ferns and Allies (Filicinophyta)
• A survey of the Plant Kingdoms - Manhattan College
• Vascular Plant Image Gallery - Albion College

Regional Information

Australia

• Recent name changes in Australian pteridophytes - Jim Croft
• 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

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

Search Databases for pteridophye records

• Australian Plant Name Index (short form)
• Australian National Herbarium specimen records - registration required
• Australian National Botanic Gardens living collection
• Australian National Botanic Gardens photograph collection
• Plants in the major Australian botanic gardens
• PlantNet from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney - registration required
  • NSWPlants
  • Plants @ Risk
• FloraBase from CALM, Western Australia - registraton required
• Type photographs in Australian Herbaria
• ERIN's species mapper
• International Plant Names Project and the International Plant Name Index (IPNI)
  • Plant names
  • Author names
  • Publication titles
  • Botanical collectors
• Threatened Plants of the World from WCMC - Search
• W3Tropicos from Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Nomenclature
  • Specimens
  • Pteridophyte images
• New York Botanical Garden:
  • Herbarium specimen catalogue (Search)
  • Pteridophyte Type specimens
  • Index to American Botanical Literature (Search)
• Biota of North America Program
• USDA PLANTS database
• Families and genera of vascular plants from GRIN - (Species search)
• Flora Europaea
• Herbarium, Texas A&M University
  • Checklist of the vascular plants of Texas - Pteridophytes
• CalFlora database (plants of California):
  • Species
  • Synonyms
  • Occurrence
  • Pteridophyte distribution by County - maps (obsolete)
  • Pteridophyte lists by County - lists (obsolete)
• CalPhotos: Plants - Californian plant photo libray - UC Berkeley
• Fern images
• Pteridophyte type specimen catalogue, Univerisity of California Herbarium
• Wisconsin Vascular Plants (Search)
  • Browse families
  • Browse genera
• Type specimens in Dutch herbaria
• Multisite database query from Royal Botanic Garden, Edingurgh

Other databases

• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew databases, including:
  • Search for generic names
  • List generic names within plant families
  • Search for surnames of authors of plant names
  • Search for abbreviations of authors of plant names
  • Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature
• Harvard University Herbaria databases, including:
  • Search Gray Herbarium index of New World plants
  • Search Harvard University Herbaria type specimen database
  • Search Botanical Authors database
  • Search Botanical Publications database
• Index Nominum Genericorum - Search for generic names
• Index Nominum Supragenericorum Plantarum Vascularium
  • Search for suprageneric names
  • Vascular Plant Family Nomenclature

Miscellaneous

• Guide to collecting ferns - Australian National Herbarium
• Native Ferns of Cool Climates - Australian National Botanic Gardens
• Growing Ferns from Spores - Australian National Botanic Gardens
• Fractal ferns - David Nicholls
• Keith Rogers fern pages - Australia
• Ascog Fernery, Isle of Bute, Scotland
• Australian Correspondence Schools - Horticulture - Ferns
• Cold Hardy Tree Ferns
• Louwren's Platycerium site
- South Africa
• Platycerium andinum - Peru
• Plant Images from the University of Wisconsin
  • Access by Phylum, Family, Genus or directly
  • Psilophytes, Lycopods, Sphenophytes, Pteridophytes
  • General botany - Ferns, Fern allies
  • Tree-fern list server
• Peter Richardson's fern photographs
• C-Fern - Ceratopteris as a research and teaching tool

Useful Tools and Resources

Data and Information Standards

• Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG)
  • Accession data subgroup
  • World geographical scheme
  • Plant Names in Botanical databases
  • Plant Occurrence and Status Scheme
  • Index Herbariorum (Search)
  • Herbarium Information Standards and Protocols for the Interchange of Data (HISPID)
• Herbarium Information Systems Committee - (HISCOM) - Australia
  • Herbarium Information Standards and Protocols for the Interchange of Data (HISPID)
• Plant Names Project and the International Plant Name Index (IPNI)
• Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature
• International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
• Index Herbariorum - Search

  Geographic Information Systems

• Find localities in the Australian Gazetteer from AUSLIG
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
• GEOnet Names server - US National Imagery and Mapping Agency
• World Fact Book - CIA
• Map Maker - CSU Sturt University
• Map Viewer - Xerox PARC
• Earth and Moon Viewer - N.Amer. mirror
• Australian Weather from the Bureau of Meteorology
• Virtual Australian Herbarium - ( use ' VAHuser / demonstration ' ) - no pteridophytes yet

  Other

• Permit requirements for the collecting of Australian plants and animals
• An introduction to collecting plants
• Specimen mounting guidelines
• A guide to herbarium curation