#brackenfern
August 9, 2025 at 2:03 AM
November 18, 2024 at 1:02 PM
July 17, 2026 at 5:14 PM
On our hike yesterday I spotted a bracken fern with very narrow, curled and blackened edges on its leaflets. At first they looked like bizarre pods, they were so three-dimensional. Later I found a paper by George Poinar Jr.(!!) that suggested they were probably housing fly larvae. 🪰
August 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Taxonomia
Reino: Plantae
Filo: Tracheophyta
Classe: Polypodiopsida
Ordem: Polypodiales
Família: Dennstaedtiaceae
Gênero: Pteridium

255 registros no Brasil · 2.141 no mundo
Fonte: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/275638
tropical brackenfern (Pteridium arachnoideum)
Pteridium arachnoideum is a species of plants with 2141 observations
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August 28, 2026 at 5:56 AM