MatBio: EPIPHYTES & PARASITES - Matanzas Biodiversity

Welcome to our series of field guides - part of the MatBio Initiative at the Whitney Laboratory of Marine Bioscience! Our guides document the plant and animal species living in the Matanzas Basin, a coastal ecosystem stretching from St. Augustine to Palm Coast in NE Florida. They are works in ...more ↓

Plume Polypody 1
Pecluma plumula
Golden Polypody 2
Phlebodium aureum
Resurrection Fern 3
Pleopeltis polypodioides michauxiana
Shoestring Fern 3
Vittaria lineata
Bartram's Airplant 4
Tillandsia bartramii
Ballmoss 5
Tillandsia recurvata
Southern Needleleaf 6
Tillandsia setacea
Manatee River airplant 1
Tillandsia simulata
Spanish Moss 7
Tillandsia usneoides
Giant Airplant 8
Tillandsia utriculata
Florida Airplant 1
Tillandsia X floridana
Florida Butterfly Orchid 9
Encyclia tampensis
Green-fly Orchid 10
Epidendrum magnoliae
American Squawroot 11
Conopholis americana
Hellroot 12
Orobanche minor
Oak Mistletoe 3
Phoradendron leucarpum

Edited by matbio, and Jose Nunez

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