Skeleton fork fern
சைலோட்டம் நூடம்
Psilotum nudum (L.) P.Beauv.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- —
- wide
- —
Psilotaceae
Also called Whisk fern, Cocks crow, Forest moa, Upright whiskfern
Formerly Bernhardia antillarum, Bernhardia capensis, Bernhardia deppeana, Bernhardia floridana, and 15 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or epiphyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Tropics & SubtropicsKew's checklist, not yet checked
Not known yet: light, height, spread, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Helecho espárrago, helecho escoba, Canuto (Cádiz)
- Hawaiian
- moa, Moa, ʻOʻō moa
- Chinese
- 松葉蕨, 松叶蕨, 石刷把
- Japanese
- マツバラン
- Estonian
- harilik raagraigas
- Finnish
- haarusanikkainen
- Czech
- prutovka nahá
- Chinese (China)
- 松叶蕨
- Korean
- 솔잎난
- French
- Psilote nu
- Afrikaans
- stoffer varing, stoffervaring
- Russian
- Псилот голый
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- 3D model: Psilotum nudum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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