Polypodiaceae

Pleopeltis Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.

First published in Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 5: 211 (1810)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is New World, Africa, Arabian Peninsula, India, Sri Lanka.

Distribution

Native to:

Alabama, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Arkansas, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cayman Is., Central American Pac, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, Dominican Republic, Easter Is., Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Florida, Free State, French Guiana, Galápagos, Georgia, Guatemala, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Illinois, India, Indiana, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Juan Fernández Is., Kansas, Kentucky, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Lesotho, Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Malawi, Maryland, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, Mozambique, New Mexico, New York, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Ohio, Oklahoma, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Somalia, South Carolina, Sri Lanka, St.Helena, Suriname, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Virginia, West Virginia, Windward Is., Yemen, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Extinct in:

Mauritius

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • (2021). https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.512.4.1. epublication.
  • 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.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Spruce, R. [5664], Peru K000006945 Yes
Edwards, P.J. [2304], Brazil K000955967 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 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 2023. 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