Fern Encyclopedia
Isoetes lacustris (Lake Quillwort)
Isoetes lacustris is a 200-million-year-old living fossil lycophyte inhabiting cold, oligotrophic lakes across the Northern Hemisphere. This aquatic quillwort employs rare CAM photosynthesis to thrive in nutrient-poor waters where most...
Isoetes lacustris (Lake Quillwort)
Isoetes lacustris is a 200-million-year-old living fossil lycophyte inhabiting cold, oligotrophic lakes across the Northern Hemisphere. This aquatic quillwort employs rare CAM photosynthesis to thrive in nutrient-poor waters where most...
Marsilea ancylopoda (Tropical Water-Clover Fern)
Marsilea ancylopoda, the Tropical Water-Clover Fern, stands as a botanically distinctive aquatic fern native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, ranging from Mexico through Central America and across South America...
Marsilea ancylopoda (Tropical Water-Clover Fern)
Marsilea ancylopoda, the Tropical Water-Clover Fern, stands as a botanically distinctive aquatic fern native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, ranging from Mexico through Central America and across South America...
Marsilea aegyptiaca (Egyptian Water Clover, Egy...
Marsilea aegyptiaca, the Egyptian Water Clover, stands as a botanical paradox among aquatic ferns—a species equally at home in the flooded rice paddies of the Nile Delta and the parched,...
Marsilea aegyptiaca (Egyptian Water Clover, Egy...
Marsilea aegyptiaca, the Egyptian Water Clover, stands as a botanical paradox among aquatic ferns—a species equally at home in the flooded rice paddies of the Nile Delta and the parched,...
Ceratopteris thalictroides 'Windeløv' (Windeløv...
Ceratopteris thalictroides 'Windeløv' is a lacy-leaved cultivar of the pantropical water sprite, selected by Tropica Aquarium Plants in Denmark during the late 1980s or early 1990s and named in honour...
Ceratopteris thalictroides 'Windeløv' (Windeløv...
Ceratopteris thalictroides 'Windeløv' is a lacy-leaved cultivar of the pantropical water sprite, selected by Tropica Aquarium Plants in Denmark during the late 1980s or early 1990s and named in honour...
Ceratopteris siliquosa (Pod-Bearing Water Sprite)
Ceratopteris siliquosa is an obscure aquatic fern distinguished by its pod-like fertile frond segments, named from the Latin siliqua. Known from limited collections in tropical regions, it is virtually absent...
Ceratopteris siliquosa (Pod-Bearing Water Sprite)
Ceratopteris siliquosa is an obscure aquatic fern distinguished by its pod-like fertile frond segments, named from the Latin siliqua. Known from limited collections in tropical regions, it is virtually absent...
Ceratopteris richardii (C-Fern, Richard's Water...
Ceratopteris richardii, the C-Fern, is an amphi-Atlantic tropical aquatic fern distributed across the Neotropics and Africa that has become by far the most scientifically important member of its genus. A...
Ceratopteris richardii (C-Fern, Richard's Water...
Ceratopteris richardii, the C-Fern, is an amphi-Atlantic tropical aquatic fern distributed across the Neotropics and Africa that has become by far the most scientifically important member of its genus. A...