Gymnosphaera

Accepted species 46 Documented here 4 Family Cyatheaceae

Accepted species 46 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
Gymnosphaera capensis (L.f.) S.Y.Dong 252 documented
Gymnosphaera podophylla (Hook.) Copel. 52 documented
Gymnosphaera metteniana (Hance) Tagawa 30 documented
Gymnosphaera rebeccae (F.Muell.) S.Y.Dong 10 documented
Gymnosphaera gigantea (Wall. ex Hook.) S.Y.Dong 1 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera acrostichoides (Alderw.) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera alticola Tardieu 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera andersonii (J.Scott ex Bedd.) Ching & S.K.Wu 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera andohahelensis (Tardieu) Tardieu 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera annae (Alderw.) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera atropurpurea (Copel.) Copel. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera austroyunnanensis (S.G.Lu) S.G.Lu & Chun X.Li 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera bachmaensis S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera baileyana (Domin) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera biformis (Rosenst.) Copel. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera boivinii (Mett. ex Ettingsh.) Tardieu 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera bonii (Christ) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera commutata (Mett.) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera denticulata (Baker) Copel. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera dimorpha (Christ) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera gammiei (R.D.Dixit) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera glabra Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera henryi (Baker) S.R.Ghosh 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera hornei (Baker) Copel. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera impolita (Rakotondr. & Janssen) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera khasyana (Moore ex Kuhn) Ching 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera lurida (Blume) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera mildbraedii (Brause) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera nicklesii Tardieu & F.Ballard ex Tardieu 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera ogurae (Hayata) Tagawa 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera olivacea (Brause) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera phankelocii S.Y.Dong & C.W.Chen 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera phlebodes (Lehnert & Coritico) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera poolii (C.Chr.) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera ramispina (Hook.Hook. & Baker) Copel. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera ramispinoides (M.Kato) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera rouhaniana (Rakotondr. & Janssen) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera rubella (Holttum) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera salletii (Tardieu & C.Chr. ex C.Chr. & Tardieu) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera salvinii (Hook.) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera saxicola S.Y.Dong & Z.Y.Zuo 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera scandens (Brause) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera schlechteri (Brause) Copel. 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera schliebenii (Reimers) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera subdubia (Alderw.) S.Y.Dong 0 below the evidence gate
Gymnosphaera vietnamensis S.Y.Dong & C.W.Chen 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.