identification of some palms, cycads and ferns

1. Palms

2. angiosperms
family Arecaceae
twenty-six hundred species.

3. Feather leaved palms

4. Areca lutescens

5. Caryota mitis
Caryota urens

6. Roystonea regia

7. Wodyetia bifurcata

8. Phoenix dactylifera

9. Phoenix roebelenii

10. Chamaedorea elegans

11. Cocos nucifera

12. Fan leaved palms

13. Washingtonia filifera

14. Rhapis excelsa

15. Bismarckia-nobilis

16. Pritchardia pacifica (Fiji fan palm)

17. Livistona chinensis

18. Cycads
cycads produce naked seeds that do not
enclose within the fruits.

19. gymnosperms
three families namely Cycadaceae,
Stangeriaceae and Zamiaceae.
300 different species.
They have a similar overall appearance
as palms. But cycads and palms differ
with each other in many aspects. A
characteristic feature of the cycads is
the production of cone-like structures
and colourful seeds.
dioecious plants

20. Cycas revoluta (Sago palm)

21. Cycas circinalis
Queen sago

22. Dioon edule

23. Zamia sp.

24. Ferns is a member of a group
of vascular plants (plants
with xylem and phloem)
that reproduce
via spores and have
neither seeds nor flowers.

25. Nephrolepis exaltata (Boston fern)
Many ferns are grown in horticulture
as landscape plants, for cut
foliage and as houseplants

26. Platycerium bifurcatum (Staghorn fern)

27. Asplenium nidus - Bird Nest Fern

28. Adiantum raddianum (Maiden hair fern)

29. Polystichum xiphophyllum

30. Polypodium cambricum

31. Pteris cretica