Peter Hovenkamp | Ferns and Lycophytes of the World

Some years ago I collected some living Spinulum annotinum in Southern Sweden, in the vicinity of Göteborg-Landvetter airport.I planted it...

It’s always a special thrill to find a species you have described from herbarium material growing in the wild… Pyrrosia...

Ferns in the genus Selliguea generally have a thick, leathery lamina, but this epiphytic species has one of the thickest… The sori...

A large fern, with a beautiful rhizome (for those of us who love rhizomes almost more than the rest of a plant…). Notice the neat...

Posted by Peter Hovenkamp on Sep 25, 2014 in Videos | 1 comment

When I sat down in an idle moment to watch a sporangium of Angiopteris opening, I was not expecting to see anything more interesting than...