comb ferns
Schizaea
Schizaea is a small genus of specialized ferns in the family Schizaeaceae. Common names include curlygrass fern and comb fern. Some species are very small and inconspicuous, and so may often be overlooked in nature. The genus is distinctive and not at all like the common conception of a fern; the barren fronds (trophophylls) are grass-like, and the spore-bearing fertile frond (sporophyll) is similar, but with a small, pinnate fertile segment at its apex. The upper...
23 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Toothbrush Fern
speciesSchizaea pectinata
Forked Comb Fern
speciesSchizaea bifida
fan fern
speciesSchizaea dichotoma
curly grass fern
speciesSchizaea pusilla
Comb Fern
speciesSchizaea fistulosa
Southern Comb Fern
speciesSchizaea australis
Schizaea elegans
speciesSchizaea elegans
Grass Fern
speciesSchizaea rupestris
Schizaea robusta
speciesSchizaea robusta
Schizaea medusa
speciesSchizaea medusa
Henscomb Fern
speciesSchizaea tenella
Schizaea incurvata
speciesSchizaea incurvata
Schizaea fluminensis
speciesSchizaea fluminensis
Schizaea poeppigiana
speciesSchizaea poeppigiana
Schizaea malaccana
speciesSchizaea malaccana
Schizaea stricta
speciesSchizaea stricta
Schizaea sprucei
speciesSchizaea sprucei
Schizaea montis-petrae
speciesSchizaea montis-petrae
Schizaea rhacoindusiata
speciesSchizaea rhacoindusiata
Schizaea × diversispora
hybridSchizaea × diversispora
Schizaea hallieri
speciesSchizaea hallieri
Schizaea pseudodichotoma
speciesSchizaea pseudodichotoma
Schizaea erecta
speciesSchizaea erecta
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 83609.