Polypodiaceae
Nephrolepis

Nephrolepis undulata (Afzel. ex Sw.) J.Sm.

First published in Bot. Mag. 72(Companion): 35 (1846)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tropics & Subtropics. It is a perennial, lithophyte or epiphyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome. It is has social uses, as a medicine and for food.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Galápagos, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Panamá, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Réunion, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Venezuela, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Barthelat, F. (2019). La flore illustrée de Mayotte: 1-687. Biotope éditions.
  • Fraser-Jenkins, C.R. & Kandel, D.R. (2020). Ferns and Fern-Allies of Nepal 3: 1-191. Government of Nepal, Ministry of Forests and Environment, Department of Plant Resources.
  • Fraser-Jenkins, C.R. & al. (2021). An Annotated Checklist of Indian Pteridophytes 3: 1-450. Dehra Dun : BSMPS.
  • Gosline, G., Bidault, E., van der Burgt, X., Cahen, D., Challen, G., Condé, N., Couch, C., Couvreur, T.L.P., Dagallier, L.M.J., Darbyshire, I., Dawson, S., Doré, T.S., Goyder, D., Grall, A., Haba, P., Haba, P., Harris, D., Hind, D.J.N., Jongkind, & al. (2023). A Taxonomically-verified and Vouchered Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Republic of Guinea. Nature, scientific data 10, Article number: 327: [1]-[12].
  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
  • Sarder, N.U. & Hassan, M.A. (eds.) (2018). Vascular flora of Chittagong and the Chittagong Hill Tracts 1: 1-897. Bangladesh National Herbarium, Dhaka.
  • Singh, S.K. & al. (2023). Pteridophytes of Meghalaya. A pictorial guide: 1-246. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Tard. in Mém. I.F.A.N. 28 : 155 (1953).
  • in Curt. Bot. Mag. 72, Comp. 35 bis (1846)

Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

  • Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa https://plants.jstor.org/collection/UPWTA in The State of the World’s Plants Report–2016. (2016). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew https://stateoftheworldsplants.org/2016/

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Fraser-Jenkins, C.R. & al. (2021). An Annotated Checklist of Indian Pteridophytes 3: 1-450. Dehra Dun : BSMPS.
  • Sarder, N.U. & Hassan, M.A. (eds.) (2018). Vascular flora of Chittagong and the Chittagong Hill Tracts 1: 1-897. Bangladesh National Herbarium, Dhaka.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Burkill HM. (1995). The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vols. 1-3. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vols 1-3.
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • FPI (2021). Food Plants International. https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://foodplantsinternational.com/plants/
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • IUCN (2021). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2021-2. https://www.iucnredlist.org.
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
  • PROTA (2021). Plants Resources of Tropical Africa. https://prota4u.org/database/

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Nov 1, 2003 Onana, J.-M. [1840] Cameroon K000746291 No
Nov 1, 2003 Kongor Raphael [51] Cameroon K000746290 No
Nov 1, 2003 Etuge, M. [4817] Cameroon K000746292 No
Aug 1, 2001 Cheek, M. [9417] Cameroon K000109046 No
Aug 1, 2001 Cable, S. [2792] Cameroon K000108962 No
Jul 1, 2001 Cable, S. [2410] Cameroon K000109053 No
Jul 1, 2001 Etuge, M. [2816] Cameroon K000109192 No
Jul 1, 2001 Zapfack, L. [914] Cameroon K000109213 No
Jul 1, 2001 Cable, S. [3229] Cameroon K000109208 No
Jul 1, 2001 Etuge, M. [2527] Cameroon K000109191 No
Jul 1, 2001 Zapfack, L. [625] Cameroon K000109209 No
Jul 1, 2001 Cable, S. [3846] Cameroon K000109175 No
Jul 1, 2001 Zapfack, L. [956] Cameroon K000109211 No
Jul 1, 2001 Etuge, M. [2395] Cameroon K000109207 No
Jul 1, 2001 Sidwell, K. [379] Cameroon K000109210 No
May 1, 2000 Pollard, B.J. [278] Cameroon K000746746 No
Sep 1, 1998 Cheek, M. [8605] Cameroon K000746748 No
Apr 1, 1998 Mbani, J.M. [441] Cameroon K000444037 No
Mar 1, 1997 Etuge, M. [3361] Cameroon K000746749 No
Nov 1, 1996 Zapfack, L. [1191] Cameroon K000746747 No
Sep 1, 1996 Etuge, M. [1315] Cameroon K000109194 No
Sep 1, 1996 Etuge, M. [1395] Cameroon K000109193 No
Sep 1, 1996 Balding, S.; Sivell D. [51] Cameroon K000109204 No
Sep 1, 1996 Lane, P. [5] Cameroon K000109195 No
Sep 1, 1996 Cable, S. [25] Cameroon K000109196 No
Jan 1, 1996 Cable, S. [239] Cameroon K000518828 No
Jan 1, 1996 Thomas, D.W. [9898] Cameroon K000541970 No
Jan 1, 1996 Cable, S. [157] Cameroon K000518829 No
Jan 1, 1996 Cheek, M. [5006] Cameroon K000518827 No
Jan 1, 1996 Tchouto (Mbatchou), P. [1013] Cameroon K000518832 No
Jan 1, 1996 Thomas, D.W. [9528] Cameroon K000518831 No
Jan 1, 1996 Upson, T. [51] Cameroon K000518842 No
Jan 1, 1996 Upson, T. [57] Cameroon K000518822 No
Jan 1, 1996 Wheatley, J.I. [642] Cameroon K000518830 No
Jan 1, 1996 Thomas, D.W. [9207] Cameroon K000518826 No
Jan 1, 1996 Williams, S. [89] Cameroon K000518838 No
Couch, C.A. [996] Guinea K000875197 Yes
Osborne, J. [JO1432] Mozambique K000569787 Yes
Nkeng, P.; Pollard, B.; Caroline; Nukam, E.; Fru, A.J. [195] Cameroon K001422157 Yes
Madagascar K000435693 Unknown Type Material Yes
Haswell, D.R. [19] Sierra Leone K001519527 Yes
Hunt, L.V. [37] Cameroon K000609443 Yes
Etuge, M. [2619] Cameroon K000109174 No
Madagascar K000435695 Unknown Type Material Yes
Madagascar K000435694 Unknown Type Material Yes
Harris, T. [202] Mozambique K000613277 No
Gomez, W. [Cat. no. 1032] Burma Aspidium tavoyanum K001110652 Unknown Type Material Yes
Jul 1, 1991 Schaffner, W. [447] Mexico Nephrolepis occidentalis K000590568 Isotype Yes
Botteri [67] Nephrolepis occidentalis K000590567 Type Yes
Lace, J.H. [4940] Burma Nephrolepis delicatula K001092500 Isosyntype Yes
Jacquemont, V. [598] India Nephrolepis delicatula K001092501 Isotype Yes

Sources

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Colombian resources for Plants made Accessible

    • ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
    • https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  • Flora of West Tropical Africa

    • Flora of West Tropical Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Useful Plants of Boyacá Project

    • ColPlantA database
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0