The New Zealand Plant Conservation Network

Typical Epipytes

These 58 vascular plant species are typical epiphytes, which means that they are 'habitually epiphytic' (Oliver 1930) although they may not be exclusively so.

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

This page last updated on 11 Jan 2013