Family:
Polypodiaceae J.Presl & C.Presl

Lepisorus (J.Sm.) Ching

This genus is accepted, and its native range is Tropical & S. Africa, W. Indian Ocean, Afghanistan to S. Russian Far East and Pacific.

Native to:

Afghanistan, Altay, Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Cook Is., East Himalaya, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Free State, Gabon, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, Hawaii, India, Inner Mongolia, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kazan-retto, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Kuril Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Manchuria, Marianas, Marquesas, Mauritius, Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Ogasawara-shoto, Pakistan, Philippines, Primorye, Qinghai, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Sakhalin, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Solomon Is., Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Tonga, Tubuai Is., Uganda, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Xinjiang, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Lepisorus (J.Sm.) Ching appears in other Kew resources:

First published in Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol. 4: 56 (1933)

Accepted by

  • Fraser-Jenkins, C.R. & al. (2021). An Annotated Checklist of Indian Pteridophytes 3: 1-450. Dehra Dun : BSMPS.
  • 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.
  • Wei, R. & Zhang, X.C. (2022). A revised subfamilial classification of Polypodiaceae based on plastome, nuclear ribosomal and morphological evidence Taxon 71: 288-306.
  • Zhao, C.F., Wei, R., Zhang, X.C. & Xiang, Q.P. (2020). Backbone phylogeny of Lepisorus (Polypodiaceae) and a novel infrageneric classi?cation based on the total evidence from plastid and morphological data Cladistics 36: 235-258.

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0