#Psilotaceae

[loynogreenhouse-blog]

Whisk Fern

Psilotum nudum

[nickywilso]

after long searching we finally found a fork fern! Tmesipteris elongata or T. tannensis. On a whekī trunk, it’s supposed to be common, maybe not so in the Wgtn region. This at Belmont Regional Park near the Oakleigh St entrance on Wednesday 〰 This is perhaps our most ancient lineage of plants that are loosely classed as ferns, so old they don’t have true leaves! In the order Psilotales, the whisk ferns 150317

[thehandlens-blog]

BIOS211 field trip 2007 by Jon Sullivan Via Flickr: Kerry-Jayne Wilson checking the identification of the Tmesipteris in Brownsey, P. J., and Dodsworth, J. C. S. 2000. New Zealand ferns and allied plants. David Bateman Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand. field botany, hand lens Tmesipteris tannensis, fork fern (Plant, Psilotaceae), New Zealand: Endemic a few hundred metres of so along the track up the road entrance to the track. There is a group of plants on a tight corner in the track part way up the slope. Lincoln University BIOS211 field trip Cockayne Nature Trail Kelly's Creek near Otira Arthurs Pass National Park Westland New Zealand