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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
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