Doryopteris
Tufted fern. No flowers or fruit. The fronds are roughly triangular in outline.
Azolla Fern
Minute floating ferns resembling duckweeds. Color can range from red to green.
Cliffbrake Fern
Leaflets tough and leathery with smooth waxy upper surface. Grows out of cracks in rock faces.
Weeping Fern
Widely cultivated but also native species. Grows upon trees or from breaks in cliff faces.
Maidenhair Fern
Many species of delicate Asplenium ferns epiphytic on tree branches or rock faces. Also known as spleenworts.
Spleenwort
Epiphytic fern. Reproduces vegetatively by rooting at terminus of fronds. Moist forest understory.
Wood Fern
This fern was growing from a crevice on a rocky hilltop in western Kenya.
Brake
Robust, meter-tall fern in moist forest. Sori on underside of blades.
Bracken
Fern with worldwide distribution found on dryish, infertile soil. Thrice pinnately divided fronds.
Scaly Tree Fern
A tree-size fern in moist forest of Mt. Kenya area.
Scaly Tree Fern
These ancient plants grow in moist shady areas with feathery, bifurcating branching stems.