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Useful references for creating and expanding pteridophyte articles.
Books
[edit]- Cobb, Boughton; Farnsworth, Elizabeth; Lowe, Cheryl (2005). A Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America. Peterson Field Guides. New York City: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-618-39406-0.
- Good field guide for the northeastern US, with dichotomous keys. Species descriptions vary in length; rarer taxa tend to get a rather brief description.
- Gleason, Henry A.; Cronquist, Arthur (2009). Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Bronx, New York: The New York Botanical Garden Press. ISBN 978-0-89327-365-1.
- The authoritative manual for plant identification in the northeastern US.
- Cullina, William (2008). Native Ferns, Moss & Grasses. New York City: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-618-53118-9.
- Species descriptions and cultivation for a number of North American ferns.
- Flora of North America Editorial Committee, ed. (1993). Flora of North America North of Mexico. Vol. 2. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press http://www.efloras.org/volume_page.aspx?volume_id=1002&flora_id=1.
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(help) fill in title and author parameters for the appropriate genus or species sub-article- Comprehensive floristic account of pteridophyte taxa in North America (excluding Mexico).
- Hoshizaki, Barbara Joe; Moran, Robbin C. (2001). Fern Grower's Manual. Portland, OR: Timber Press. ISBN 9780881924954.
- A manual on the cultivation of ferns in North America. Includes short species-specific accounts and growing conditions for a large number of species, both native and foreign species cultivated in the US and Canada.
- Lellinger, David B. (1985). A Field Manual of the Ferns & Fern-Allies of the United States & Canada. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 0874746035.
- Keys and guide to, description of, and brief cultivation information for all ferns and fern allies of North America (exclusive of Mexico). Taxonomy obviously somewhat dated (pre-molecular systematics).
- Reed, Clyde F. (1953), The Ferns and Fern-Allies of Maryland and Delaware Including District of Columbia, Baltimore, MD: Reed Herbarium, hdl:2027/mdp.39015006935160
- Regional flora. Some taxonomy questionable. Good for information on certain hybrids and forms and varieties of the ferns described.
Journal articles
[edit]Systematics
[edit]- Smith, Alan R.; Pryer, Kathleen M.; Schuettpelz, Eric; Korall, Petra; Schneider, Harald; Wolf, Paul G. (August 2006). "A classification for extant ferns" (PDF). Taxon. 55 (3): 705–731. doi:10.2307/25065646. JSTOR 25065646. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-12-09. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
- First attempt to provide a comprehensive classification for all ferns based on molecular data.
- Smith, Alan R.; Pryer, Kathleen M.; Schuettpelz, Eric; Korall, Petra; Schneider, Harald; Wolf, Paul G. (2008). "16: Fern classification". In Ranker, Tom A.; Haufler, Christopher H. (eds.). Biology and Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes. Cambridge University Press. pp. 417–467. ISBN 978-0-521-69689-0.
- Update of the preceding, accommodating changes in Osmundaceae and Dryopteridaceae
- Christenhusz, Maarten J. M.; Zhang, Xian-Chun; Schneider, Harald (18 February 2011). "A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns" (PDF). Phytotaxa. 19: 7–54. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.19.1.2.
- Revised classification intended for herbaria.
- Christenhusz, Maarten J. M.; Harald Schneider (14 September 2011). "Corrections to Phytotaxa 19: Linear sequence of lycophytes and ferns" (PDF). Phytotaxa. 28: 50–52. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.28.1.6.
- Corrections to preceding, most notably establishment of Hemidictyaceae
- Christenhusz, Maarten J. M.; Chase, Mark W. (13 February 2014). "Trends and concepts in fern classification". Annals of Botany. 113 (4): 571–594. doi:10.1093/aob/mct299. PMC 3936591. PMID 24532607.
- A more "lumpy" classification.
- The Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group (November 2016). "A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns". Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 54 (6): 563–603. doi:10.1111/jse.12229. S2CID 39980610.
- A more "splitty" classification.
Ecology
[edit]- Balick, M.J.; Furth, D.G.; Cooper-Driver, G. (1978). "Biochemical and evolutionary aspects of arthropod predation in ferns". Oecologia. 35 (1): 55–89. Bibcode:1978Oecol..35...55B. doi:10.1007/BF00345541. PMID 28309868. S2CID 13199403.
- Gastony, Gerald J.; Windham, Michael D. (1989). "Species concepts in pteridophytes: the treatment and definition of agamosporous species". American Fern Journal. 79 (2): 65–77. doi:10.2307/1547161. JSTOR 1547161.
- Peck, James H.; Peck, Carol J.; Farrar, Donald R. (1990). "Influences of life history attributes on formation of local and distant fern populations". American Fern Journal. 80 (4): 126–142. doi:10.2307/1547200. JSTOR 1547200.
- Examining reproductive capacity of various ferns at a site in central Iowa.
Adiantum
[edit]- Lu, Jin-Mei; Li, De-Zhu; Lutz, Sue; Soejima, Akiko; Yi, Tingshuang; Wen, Jun (2011). "Biogeographic disjunction between eastern Asia and North America in the Adiantum pedatum complex (Pteridaceae)". American Journal of Botany. 98 (10): 1680–1693. doi:10.3732/ajb.1100125. PMID 21965133.
- Implied evidence for cryptic species in the Adiantum pedatum complex.
- Paris, Cathy A. (April 1991). "Adiantum viridimontanum, a new maidenhair fern in eastern North America". Rhodora. 93 (874): 105–121.
- Establishes Adiantum aleuticum and A. viridimontanum as separate species from A. pedatum.
Asplenium
[edit]- Wagner, Warren H., Jr. (1954). "Reticulate Evolution in the Appalachian Aspleniums" (PDF). Evolution. 8 (2): 103–118. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1954.tb00117.x. hdl:2027.42/137493. S2CID 87260508.
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Websites
[edit]- Biodiversity Heritage Library Archived 2016-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Searching is a bit balky, but a number of pteridological and botanical journals are archived and searchable here.
- Biota of North America Project
- Run by John Kartesz. May be preferable to USDA PLANTS for species distributions.
- Botanicus
- Searches some botanical journals but also has many early descriptions (first publication of many species) online.
- Connecticut Botanical Society
- Well-illustrated species descriptions.
- Center for Plant Conservation
- Lengthy list of threatened plants, including several ferns. Provides accounts describing the species and conservation information.
- Fire Effects Information System
- Species accounts, with additional information centered on the fire ecology of the plant. Well-cited.
- Hardy Fern Library bibliography
- Nice list of additional sources beyond those treated here.
- Harvard Herbarium specimens.
- Occasionally has scanned images of the specimen.
- Jepson Manual online
- Brief species treatments and distribution within California of species native to that state.
- NatureServe Explorer Archived 2006-03-15 at the Wayback Machine
- Conservation status look-ups.
- Plants for a Future
- Descriptions of plants with some significant human use.
- PLANTS database
- Contains database with state and sometimes county-level distributions for plants in US and Canada. It is not clear that the data is being regularly updated.
- Tropicos
- Taxonomic information, including synonymy.
- USFWS recovery plans
- A few ferns are listed.