Dicksonia L'Hér.

First published in Sert. Angl.: 30 (1789)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Malesia to SW. Pacific, Mexico to S. Tropical America, St. Helena.

Distribution

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Chatham Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Guatemala, Honduras, Jawa, Juan Fernández Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Philippines, Queensland, Samoa, Solomon Is., St.Helena, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Tasmania, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Victoria

Introduced into:

Azores, Cape Provinces, Great Britain, Ireland, Madeira

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Balkrishna, A., Joshi, B., Sribastava, A., Shankar, R. & Shukla, B.K. (2019). Classification of extant Pteridophytes: a new approach. Indian Fern Journal 36: 311-341.
  • 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.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Johns, R.J. [9048], New Guinea 70222.000 No
Johns, R.J. [10380], Indonesia 64655.000 No
Spruce, R. [5366], Ecuador K000006843 Yes

Sources

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

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

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 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 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0