臺灣的蕨類

The Pteridophyta of Taiwan

About 640 species of ferns and fern allies have been reported from Taiwan. Since this island lies partly in the tropics and also has a large number of mountain peaks of over 10,000 feet, there is a very wide range of habitats on Taiwan, thus supporting both tropical and temperate types of vegetation. Matsumura (1904), Sasaki (1928), Kudo (1931), Suzuki (1931) and Masamune (1936, 1954 ) have prepared enumerations of the ferns for all or parts of Taiwan. Hayata, Nakai, H. Ito, and Tagawa have described many new species and made a number of studies and revisions on many of the families and genera of our ferns, Keng (1952) prepared a report on the Pteridophytes giving descriptions of the genera, and stating the number of species per genus. DeVol (1959) published a key to the genera of the Pteriophytes and Ito (1944) published an illustrated flora giving pictures and descriptions of 512 species of ferns found in Japan and Taiwan, nearly all of which are known from Taiwan.