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PTERIDOPHYTA (ferns and allies)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #refs
Class CALAMOPHYTA (horsetails) 5 68 21 30 5
Class EUSPORANGIOPHYTA (adder's tongues and moonworts) 2        
Family OPHIOGLOSSACEAE (adder’s tongues and moonworts) 2 17     1
Class LYCOPODIOPHYTA (clubmosses and quillworts) 7        
Family ISOETACEAE (quillworts) 1       4
Family LYCOPODIACEAE (a family of clubmosses) 5 33   6 3
Family SELAGINELLACEAE (lesser clubmosses) 1 5      
Class PTEROPSIDA (leptosporangiate ferns) 48 374 129 84 48

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Irish Wildflowers: http://www.irishwildflowers.ie/ Irish Wildflowers
Blamey, M. and Fitter, R. & A., 2003 Wild Flowers of Britain and Ireland
Brightman, F.H. & Nicholson, B.E., 1966 The Oxford Book of Flowerless Plants
Butcher, R.W., 1961 A New Illustrated British Flora (2 vols)
Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Moore, D.M., 1985 Flora of the British Isles
Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Warburg, E.F., 1962 Flora of the British Isles
Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Warburg, E.F., 1968 Excursion of Flora of the British Isles
Fitter, R., Fitter, A. & Farrer, A., 1984 Grasses, Sedges, Rushes & Ferns of Britain and Northern Europe
Frey, W. Frahm, J.-P., Fischer, E. & Lobin, W., 2006 The Liverworts, Mosses and Ferns of Europe
Hyde, H.A., Wade, A.E. & Harrison, S.G., 1969 Welsh Ferns, Clubmosses, Quillworts and Horsetails
Jahns, H.M., 1980 (Most British species illustrated) Ferns, Mossses and Lichens of Britain, Northern & Central Europe
Jermy, C & Camus, J., 1991 The Illustrated Field Guide to ferns and Allied Plants of the British Isles
Flora of Northern Ireland: http://www.habitas.org.uk/flora/index.html Flora of Northern Ireland
Page, C.N., 1982 The Ferns of Britain and Ireland
Page, C.N., 1997 The Ferns of Britain and Ireland
Phillips, R., 1980 Grasses, Ferns, Mosses and Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland
Rich, T.C.G. & Jermy, C., 1998 Plant Crib 1998
Rich, T.C.G. & M.D.B. & Perring, F.H., 1988 Plant Crib
Rose, F., 1989 Colour Identification Guide to Grasses, Sedges, Rushes and Ferns of the British Isles and north-western Europe
Stace, C., 1997 New Flora of the British Isles (Ed 2)
Stace, C., 1999 Field Flora of the British Isles
Stace, C., 2010 New Flora of the British Isles (Ed 3)
Step, E., 1945 Wayside and Woodland Ferns
Wiggington, M.J. & Graham, G.G., 1981 Guide to the Identification of some of the more Difficult Vascular Plant Species

Drawings

Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Warburg, E.F. (Roles, S.J. del), 1957 Flora of the British Isles: Illustrations
Clement, E.J., Smith, D.P.J. & Thirlwell, I.R., 2005 Illustrations of Alien Plants of the British Isles
Fitch, W.H. & Smith, W.G., 1949 Illustrations of the British Flora

Spores

Punt, W., Blackmore, S., Hoen, P. & Stafford, P. The Northwest European Pollen Flora

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 21 general literature references to PTERIDOPHYTA (ferns and allies)

PTERIDOPHYTA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 468 feeding and other relationships of PTERIDOPHYTA (ferns and allies)

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