Fern Encyclopedia

Ceratopteris pteridoides (Floating Antler Fern)

Ceratopteris pteridoides is a distinctive aquatic fern characterized by thick, spongy petioles that function as buoys, allowing it to float on water surfaces. Unlike its close relative C. thalictroides, this...

Ceratopteris pteridoides (Floating Antler Fern)

Ceratopteris pteridoides is a distinctive aquatic fern characterized by thick, spongy petioles that function as buoys, allowing it to float on water surfaces. Unlike its close relative C. thalictroides, this...

Ceratopteris thalictroides (Water Sprite (India...

Ceratopteris thalictroides (Water Sprite) is a pantropical aquatic fern of the family Pteridaceae, grown worldwide as one of the easiest and most versatile freshwater aquarium plants. It thrives floating or...

Ceratopteris thalictroides (Water Sprite (India...

Ceratopteris thalictroides (Water Sprite) is a pantropical aquatic fern of the family Pteridaceae, grown worldwide as one of the easiest and most versatile freshwater aquarium plants. It thrives floating or...

Bolbitis subcrenata (Scallop-Margined Water Fern)

Bolbitis subcrenata is a Central African rheophytic fern distinguished by the shallowly scalloped margins of its pinnae. Native to stream banks in lowland tropical rainforest of the Congo basin region,...

Bolbitis subcrenata (Scallop-Margined Water Fern)

Bolbitis subcrenata is a Central African rheophytic fern distinguished by the shallowly scalloped margins of its pinnae. Native to stream banks in lowland tropical rainforest of the Congo basin region,...

Bolbitis taylorii (Taylor's Water Fern)

Bolbitis taylorii is a rare West African rheophytic fern restricted to the Upper Guinean forests of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, and Ivory Coast, one of the world's most critically threatened...

Bolbitis taylorii (Taylor's Water Fern)

Bolbitis taylorii is a rare West African rheophytic fern restricted to the Upper Guinean forests of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, and Ivory Coast, one of the world's most critically threatened...

Bolbitis sinuata (Sinuate-leaf Bolbitis, Wavy-m...

Bolbitis sinuata is an Indo-Malesian creeping fern characterised by its distinctive sinuate-lobed pinna margins and its ecological flexibility within a genus dominated by strict rheophytes. The species grows from a...

Bolbitis sinuata (Sinuate-leaf Bolbitis, Wavy-m...

Bolbitis sinuata is an Indo-Malesian creeping fern characterised by its distinctive sinuate-lobed pinna margins and its ecological flexibility within a genus dominated by strict rheophytes. The species grows from a...

Ceratopteris froesii (Froes's Water Sprite)

Ceratopteris froesii is a rare South American aquatic fern named for the Brazilian collector Ricardo de Lemos Froes, known primarily from the Amazon basin. It produces dimorphic fronds and is...

Ceratopteris froesii (Froes's Water Sprite)

Ceratopteris froesii is a rare South American aquatic fern named for the Brazilian collector Ricardo de Lemos Froes, known primarily from the Amazon basin. It produces dimorphic fronds and is...