Dicranopteris

Accepted species 28 Documented here 5 Family Gleicheniaceae

Accepted species 28 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
Dicranopteris linearis (Burm.f.) Underw. 551 documented
Dicranopteris tetraphylla (Rosenst.) C.M.Kuo 16 documented
Dicranopteris pedata (Houtt.) Nakaike 12 documented
Dicranopteris taiwanensis Ching & Chiu 6 documented
Dicranopteris nervosa (Kaulf.) Maxon 4 documented
Dicranopteris flexuosa (Schrad.) Underw. 2 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris × nepalensis Fraser-Jenk. 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris alternans (Mett.) Y.H.Yan & Z.Y.Wei 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris austrosinensis Y.H.Yan & Z.Y.Wei 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris baliensis Y.H.Yan & Z.Y.Wei 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris cadetii Tardieu 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris clemensiae Holttum 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris curranii Copel. 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris elegantula Pic.Serm. 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris inaequalis (Rosenst.) Y.H.Yan & Z.Y.Wei 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris lanigera (D.Don) Fraser-Jenk. 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris latiloba (Holttum) Y.H.Yan & Z.Y.Wei 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris pubigera (Blume) Nakai 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris rufinervis (Mart.) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris schomburgkiana (Sturm ex Mart.) C.V.Morton 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris seminuda (Klotzsch) Maxon 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris seramensis M.Kato 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris speciosa (Presl) Holttum 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris spissa (Fée) L.V.Lima & Salino 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris splendida (Hand.-Mazz.) Tagawa 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris subpectinata (Christ) C.M.Kuo 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris subspeciosa (Holttum) Y.H.Yan & Z.Y.Wei 0 below the evidence gate
Dicranopteris weatherbyi (Fosberg) Glassman 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.