Gleichenia

Accepted species 14 Documented here 7 Family Gleicheniaceae

Accepted species 14 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
Gleichenia dicarpa R.Br. 484 documented
Gleichenia polypodioides (L.) Sm. 371 documented
Gleichenia microphylla R.Br. 271 documented
Gleichenia alpina R.Br. 122 documented
Gleichenia rupestris R.Br. 27 documented
Gleichenia inclusisora Perrie, L.D.Sheph. & Brownsey 15 documented
Gleichenia mendellii (G.Schneid.) S.B.Andrews 5 documented
Gleichenia abscida Rodway 0 below the evidence gate
Gleichenia circinnata Sw. 0 below the evidence gate
Gleichenia litoralis C.Chr. 0 below the evidence gate
Gleichenia paleacea (Copel.) Holttum 0 below the evidence gate
Gleichenia peltophora Copel. 0 below the evidence gate
Gleichenia punctulata Colenso 0 below the evidence gate
Gleichenia vulcanica Blume 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.