Cystopteris

Accepted species 33 Documented here 11 Family Cystopteridaceae

Accepted species 33 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Cystopteris fragilis (L.) Bernh. 1,185 documented
Cystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh. 492 documented
Cystopteris protrusa (Weath.) Blasdell 274 documented
Cystopteris tenuis (Michx.) Desv. 57 documented
Cystopteris tasmanica Hook. 54 documented
Cystopteris montana (Lam.) Bernh. ex Desv. 30 documented
Cystopteris alpina (Lam.) Desv. 20 documented
Cystopteris moupinensis Franch. 18 documented
Cystopteris sudetica A.Braun & Milde 14 documented
Cystopteris tennesseensis Shaver 14 documented
Cystopteris reevesiana Lellinger 8 documented
Cystopteris diaphana (Bory) Blasdell 17 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris laurentiana (Weath.) Blasdell 2 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris apiiformis Gand. 1 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris × christii Hahne 0 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris × illinoensis R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris × montserratii Prada & Salvo 0 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris × vidae Fraser-Jenk. & Parris 0 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris × wagneri R.C.Moran 0 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris altajensis Gureeva 0 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris chinensis (Ching) X.C.Zhang & R.Wei 0 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris dickieana R.Sim 0 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris douglasii Hook. 0 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris membranifolia Mickel 0 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris millefolia Mickel & Tejero 0 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris modesta Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris nivalis (Pirotta) Pic.Serm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris pellucida (Franch.) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris pseudoregia (Rivas Mart., T.E.Díaz, Fern.Prieto, Loidi & Penas) Rivas Mart. 0 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris sandwicensis Brack. 0 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris tibetica Z.R.Wang 0 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris ulei Christ 0 below the evidence gate
Cystopteris utahensis Windham & Haufler 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.