from Jim Conrad's Naturalist Newsletter: selected
 MEXICAN FERNS 
& Their Allies

  • Adder's-tongue Ferns (Ophioglossum cf. engelmannii)
  • Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum)
  • Brake (Pteris {Mildella} fallax)
  • Brake, Chinese (Pteris vittata)
  • Brake, Cretan (Pteris cretica)
  • Brake, Elephantleaf (Pteris grandifolia)
  • Calaguala (Phlebodium decumanum)
  • Cliff Fern (Woodsia mollis)
  • Cliffbrake (Pellaea villosa)
  • Cliffbrake, Heartleaf (Pellaea cordifolia)
  • Cliffbrake, Spiny (Pellaea truncata possible hybrid)
  • Climbing Fern (Lygodium venustum)
  • Cloakfern, Wavy Scaly (Argyrochosma sinuata)
  • False Cloakfern (Argyrochosma formosa)
  • Fragile Fern (Cystopteris fragilis)
  • Glade Fern, Silvery (Deparia acrostichoides)
  • Hares-foot-fern (Phlebodium cf aureum)
  • Leather Fern, Giant (Acrostichum danaefolium)
  • Leather Fern, Golden (Acrostichum aureum)
    • LIPFERNS:
    1. Hemionitis emperatricella also known as Pellaea sagittata
    2. Hemionitis farinosa also known as Aleuritopteris farinosa
    3. Lip Fern, (Hemionitis myriophylla)
    4. Lip Fern, Bonaire (Hemionitis bonariensis)
    5. Lip Fern, Mexican Beaded (Hemionitis mexicana)
    6. Lip Fern, Royal (Hemionitis notholaenoides)
    7. Lip Fern, Southern (Hemionitis microphylla)
  • Llavea (Llavea cordifolia)
  • Maiden, Roughhairy (Thelypteris hispidula)
  • Maidenhair Ferns, Mexicans
  • Maidenhair (Adiantum poiretii)
  • Maidenhair, Brittle (Adiantum tenerum)
  • Maidenhair, Hairy (Adiantum tricholepis)
  • aff. Male Fern (Dryopteris filix-mas)
  • Microgramma nitida
  • Mosquito Fern (Azolla sp.)
  • Palm Fern (Blechnum appendiculatum)
  • Pine Fern (Anemia adiantifolia)
  • Polypody, Polypodium plesiosorum
  • Polypody, Redscale Scaly (Pleopeltis polylepis)
  • Polypody, Scaly (Pleopeltis plebeia)
  • Polypody, "Sierra Madre" (Polypodium madrense)
  • Rattlesnake Fern (Botrypus virginianum)
  • Salvinia, Giant (Salvinia molesta)
  • Serpocaulon dissimile
  • Silverback Fern (Pityrogramma camomelanos)
  • Spleenwort, Black-stemmed (Asplenium resiliens)
  • Spleenwort, Single-Sorus (Asplenium monanthes)
  • Spleenwort, Triangle (Asplenium pumilum)
  • Star-scaled Fern (Pleopeltis astrolepis)
  • Strap Fern (Campyloneurum costatum)
  • Swordfern (Polystichum hartwegii)
  • Swordfern, Giant (Nephrolepis biserrata)
  • Tree Fern (Lophosoria quadripinnata)
  • Water Clover, Hairy (Marsilea vestita)

    • IDENTIFYING TROPICAL AMERICAN FERNS:
    If you can get a fern to genus level, you're halfway home. A good place to discover your unknown tropical-American fern's genus is at PlantSystematics.Org's online key entitled "Neotropical Fern Genera."