INTRODUCTION

Ferns are a large and conspicuous component of the plant diversity of Thailand with an estimated 670 species. This is about 5-7% of the total vascular flora of Thailand, and a significant proportion of the world's fern flora which is estimated to be between 9,000 and 12,000 species.

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, in collaboration with the Forest Herbarium Bangkok, Chulalongkorn University, and Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden, has been developing a multi-access key to identify all of the ferns of Thailand. This key will be available through this site from March 2012. Factsheets to the fern species which occur in Thailand are already available. We would encourage users to contact us if they have additions, corrections or other general comments to make on the content of this website and Thai ferns.

The content for this website has been developed by Stuart Lindsay and David Middleton of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in collaboration with Somran Suddee of the Forest Herbarium Bangkok and Piyakaset Suksathan of the Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden in Chiang Mai. We have also been greatly assisted by Preecha Karaket of the Forest Herbarium Bangkok, Thaweesakdi Boonkerd and Rossarin Pollawatn of Chulalongkorn University, Thamarat Phutthai of Mahidol University, Pramote Triboun of the Bangkok Herbarium, and Kitichate Sridith of Prince of Songkhla University. The principal photographers are Preecha Karaket, Thamarat Phutthai, David Middleton, Piyakaset Suksathan and Pramote Triboun.

This work was funded by The Leverhulme Trust.

Site managed by Stuart Lindsay and David Middleton, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Updated 31 January, 2012.