The New Zealand Plant Conservation Network

List of NZ vascular plant epiphytes

The following 108 vascular plant species have been recorded as epiphytic.

Typical epiphytes (58)

Ferns (39)

• Asplenium hookerianum var hookerianum
• Asplenium flaccidum
• Asplenium polyodon
• Asplenium shuttleworthianum
• Blechnum nigrum
• Cardiomanes reniforme
• Ctenopteris heterophylla
• Grammitis billardierei
• Grammitis rawlingsii
• Huperzia varia
• Hymenophyllum armstrongii
• Hymenophyllum australe
• Hymenophyllum bivalve
• Hymenophyllum dilatatum
• Hymenophyllum flabellatum
• Hymenophyllum frankliniae
• Hymenophyllum lyallii
• Hymenophyllum minimum
• Hymenophyllum multifidum
• Hymenophyllum peltatum
• Hymenophyllum pulcherrimum
• Hymenophyllum rarum
• Hymenophyllum rufescens
• Hymenophyllum sanguinolentum
• Hymenophyllum scabrum
• Hymenophyllum villosum
• Lastreopsis hispida
• Loxogramme dictyopteris
• Microsorum novae-zealandiae
• Microsorum pustulatum subsp. pustulatum
• Microsorum scandens
• Pyrrosia eleagnifolia
• Rumohra adiantiformis
• Trichomanes colensoi
• Trichomanes venosum
• Tmesipteris horomaka
• Tmesipteris lanceolata
• Tmesipteris sigmatifolia
• Tmesipteris tannensis

Shrubs and herbs (10)

• Astelia solandri
• Brachyglottis kirkii var. kirkii
• Collospermum hastatum
• Collospermum microspermum
• Griselinia lucida
• Peperomia blanda
• Peperomia tetraphylla
• Peperomia urvilleana
• Pittosporum cornifolium
• Pittosporum kirkii

Orchids (9)

• Adelopetalum tuberculatum
• Drymoanthus adversus
• Drymoanthus flavus
• Earina aestivalis
• Earina autumnalis
• Earina mucronata
• Ichthyostomum pygmaeum
• Pterostylis silvicultrix
• Winika cunninghamii

Occasional epiphytes (19)

• Asplenium bulbiferum
• Asplenium oblongifolium
• Blechnum discolor
• Blechnum filiforme
• Blechnum procerum
• Davallia tasmanii subsp. tasmanii
• Davallia tasmanii subsp. cristata
• Epacris sinclairii
• Grammitis rigida
• Huperzia varia
• Hymenophyllum atrovirens
• Libertia ixioides
• Luzuriaga parviflora
• Microlaena avenacea
• Nephrolepis hirsutula
• Nertera dichondrifolia
• Trichomanes endlicherianum
• Xeronema callistemon f. bracteosa
• Xeronema callistemon f. callistemon

Hemi-epiphytes (11)

• Coprosma grandifolia
• Coprosma robusta
• Dracophyllum arboreum
• Griselinia littoralis
• Metrosideros bartlettii
• Metrosideros robusta
• Metrosideros umbellata
• Pseudopanax arboreus
• Raukaua edgerleyi
• Weinmannia racemosa
• Weinmannia silvicola

Ephemeral epiphytes (20)

• Ackama nubicola
• Brachyglottis repanda
• Coprosma foetidissima
• Coprosma grandifolia
• Coprosma robusta
• Coprosma tenuifolia
• Dacrydium cupressinum
• Geniostoma ligustrifolium var. ligustrifolium
• Hebe barkeri
• Kunzea ericoides var. ericoides
• Leptospermum scoparium var. scoparium
• Macropiper excelsum subsp. excelsum
• Melicytus ramiflorus
• Myrsine australis
• Olearia rani var. rani
• Phyllocladus alpinus 
• Podocarpus cunninghamii
• Prumnopitys ferruginea
• Pseudopanax colensoi var. ternatus
• Pseudopanax crassifolium
• Raukaua simplex

This page last updated on 11 Jan 2013