Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Psilotum nudum
helecho escoba, whisk fern, skeleton fork fern
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Pteridophyta
Class
Psilotopsida
Order
Psilotales
Family
Psilotaceae
Genus
Psilotum
Species
nudum
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Lycopodium nudum L., Psilotum triquetrum Sw.
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
- Hamann, O. (1974) Contributions to the Flora and the Vegetation of the Galapagos Islands. I. New Floristic Records from the Archipelago. Bot. Notiser 127: 245-255.
- Lawesson, J.E. Adsersen, H. & Bentley, P. (1987) An updated and annotated check list of the vascular plants of the Galapagos islands. Rept. Bot. Inst., Univ. Aarhus 16: 1-74.
- Jørgensen, P.M. León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999) Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, 1181 pp.
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- Svenson, H.K. Weatherby, C.A. (1938) Pteridophyta of the Galápagos Islands. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 65: 303-333.
- Riley, L.A.M. (1925) Critical Notes on Galápagos Plants (St. George Pacific Expedition, 1924). Kew Bull. Misc. Info. 1925(5): 216-231.
- Castro, S. A. Curtis, C.D., Silva, L., Torres-Santana, C.W., Reyes-Betancort, J.A., Atkinson, R., Jaramillo, P., Guézou, A. & Jaksic, F. M. (2010) Floristic homogenization as a teleconnected trend in oceanic islands. Diversity and Distributions, (Diversity Distrib.): 1-9.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Psilotum nudum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=118. Accessed 24 April 2025.