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  • Checklist of world ferns

    This site lists the world’s ferns and lycophytes, with details on their distribution. It also presents basic statistical information about species in each genus and family.

  • New Zealand Plant Conservation Network

    This website presents illustrated fact sheets for each New Zealand fern and lycophyte species.

  • New Zealand plants

    This part of a larger site produced by the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland gives descriptions and photographs of ferns and lycophytes, their structure and life cycle. There is an animation of spore release and sexual reproduction in ferns, and a slide show.

  • Ngā tipu o Aotearoa – New Zealand plants

    Landcare Research’s New Zealand plant database provides information on the taxonomy and distribution of the country’s ferns and lycophytes.

More suggestions and sources

    • Brownsey, P. J. ‘Ferns: the glory of the forest.’ New Zealand Geographic 49 (2002): 64–82.

    • Brownsey, P. J., and John C. Smith-Dodsworth. New Zealand ferns and allied plants. New rev. ed. Auckland: David Bateman, 2000.

    • Crowe, Andrew. Native edible plants of New Zealand. Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton, 1990.

    • Moran, Robbin C. A natural history of ferns. Portland, Oregon: Timber, 2004.

    • Riley, Murdoch. Maori healing and herbal. Paraparaumu: Viking Sevenseas, 1994.

    • Van der Mast, Sandra. Ferns for New Zealand gardens. Auckland: Godwit, 1998.



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